The SenticNet Sentiment Lexicon: Exploring Semantic Richness in Multi-Word Concepts

The research and its outcomes presented in this book, is about lexicon-based sentiment analysis. It uses single-, and multi-word concepts from the SenticNet sentiment lexicon as the source of sentiment information for the purpose of sentiment classification. In 6 chapters the book sheds light on the comparison of sentiment classification accuracy between single-word and multi-word concepts, for which a bespoke sentiment analysis system developed by the author was used. This book will be of interest to students, educators and researchers in the field of Sentic Computing.