A Cross-Language Linguistic Resource for Lexical Representation of Affects

Abstract

This paper describes the process of Russian and Romanian WordNet-Affect creation. WordNet-Affect is a lexical resource created on the base of Princeton WordNet which contains information about emotions the words convey. It is organized in six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise. WordNet-Affect is a small lexical resource but valuable for its affective annotation. We translated WordNet Affect synsets into Russian and Romanian and, then, create two data sets for learning experiments. The two data sets will be available for research purposes upon publication.