The Development of the Chinese Sentiment Lexicon for Internet

Frontiers in Psychology

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Jia-Lin Zhao¹  Meng-Zhu Li¹  Juan Yao²  Ge-Hua Qin³ 

[1] Department of Sociology, School of Philosophy, Law and Political Science, Shanghai Normal University;Business School, The University of Sydney;The School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

关键词: Chinese sentiment lexicon;    valence and arousal;    online social media;    reliability and validity;    personality traits;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02473

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This paper examines the development of the Chinese Sentiment Lexicon for Internet (CSLI), a sentiment lexicon for capturing the valence and arousal in Chinese online social media texts. We first review the current sentiment lexicons and their building process, including the collection of words, judging the emotionality of words, and testing reliability and validity. In Study 1, we develop CSLI and test its initial reliability and validity. In Study 2, we further test the convergent validity of CSLI by examining its correlations with human judgment in 429 aggregated Weibo comments. In Study 3, the predictive validity of CSLI is examined by linking its results to personality traits among 52 undergraduates. Two replication studies are also conducted to verify the findings in Study 2 and 3. The results have generally supported the reliability and validity of CSLI. Therefore, CSLI can be used as a research tool to capture the degree of valence and arousal in Chinese online social media texts. Its potential to promote human well-being is also discussed.

【 授权许可】

CC BY