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Semantically Oriented Idioms for Sentiment Analysis. A Linguistic Resource for the Italian Language

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The present paper presents a linguistic resources usable for Sentiment Analysis purposes which includes about 500 Italian Frozen Sentences formalized into electronic dictionaries and local grammars pairs. The paper will focus on the cases in which words included into sentiment lexicons, endowed with a specific Prior Polarity, take part as constituent into frozen structures.

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Notes

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    The Pior Polarity is defined as the positive or negative polarity of words considered out of context [10].

  2. 2.

    Lexicon-Grammar tables of Italian idioms are available for consultation at http://dsc.unisa.it/composti/tavole/sv/table.html.

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    Those classes can be anytime consulted at http://dsc.unisa.it/composti/tavole/sv/table.html.

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  1. Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084, Fisciano, SA, Italy

    Serena Pelosi

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples “Frederico II”, Naples, Italy

    Flora Amato

  3. Department of Political Science, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy

    Francesco Moscato

  4. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

  5. Department of Advanced Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

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Pelosi, S. (2020). Semantically Oriented Idioms for Sentiment Analysis. A Linguistic Resource for the Italian Language. In: Barolli, L., Amato, F., Moscato, F., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1151. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44041-1_92

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