[Corpora-List] Resource available: Spanish Emotion Lexicon

[Grigori Sidorov]

Spanish Emotion Lexicon (SEL) contains 2,036 words in Spanish that are
associated with the measure of Probability Factor of Affective use (PFA)
with respect to at least one basic emotion: joy, anger, fear, sadness,
surprise, and disgust. It was marked manually by 19 annotators (scale: null,
low, medium, high) and certain thresholds on agreement were implemented.
Example of the results, see the table. It means that, say, for the word
abundancia (abundance), 50% of annotators chose “medium” and 50% chose
“high” values.

Word  Null[%]  Low[%]  Medium[%]  High[%]

 abundancia (abundance)  0  0  50  50

 aceptable (acceptable)  0  20  80  0

 acallar (to silence)  50  40  10  0

 
A new measure for each word is proposed: Probability Factor of Affective use
(PFA). It is based on the percentages presented in the table. Note that PFA
is 1 if 100% of annotators relate it to the “high” value of the association
with the emotion, and it is 0 if 100% of annotators relate it to the “null”
value. So, intuitively it has very clear meaning: the higher the value of
the PFA is, the more probable the association of the word with the emotion
is. Example of SEL word list:

Palabra PFA Categoría
abundancia 0.83 Alegría
acabalar 0.396 Alegría
acallar 0.198 Alegría

Very brief description of SEL (other paper is submitted) is presented in: 
Grigori Sidorov, Sabino Miranda-Jiménez, Francisco Viveros-Jiménez,
Alexander Gelbukh, Noé Castro-Sánchez, Francisco Velásquez, Ismael
Díaz-Rangel, Sergio Suárez-Guerra, Alejandro Treviño, and Juan Gordon.
Empirical Study of Opinion Mining in Spanish Tweets. LNAI 7630, 2012, pp
1-14.

The corpus can be download from http://www.cic.ipn.mx/~sidorov

Sincerely,
Grigori Sidorov