Identification And Examination Of Bipolar Phrases And Polarity Contradictions

Abstract

When conducting fine-grained sentiment analysis, one must cope with the construction of bipolar terms like "just punishment," for example. Furthermore, the bottom up created phrase polarity (e.g., "to approve war") occasionally violates the top down prediction of phrase polarity imposed by specific verbs on their direct objects. We examine the construction of bi-polar phrases from both a phrase internal and a verb-centered point of view, and we introduce a fine-grained polarity lexicon based on the Appraisal Theory. We have created a system pipeline that does sentiment synthesis for these languages as well as a multilingual polarity resource (French, English, and German). We address instances in relation to every one of these languages.