The role of language registers in polarity propagation

Authors:
António Paulo Santos;Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira;Carlos Ramos;Nuno C. Marques
Affiliations:
GECAD, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal;CISUC, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;GECAD, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal;DI-FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte da Caparica, Portugal
Venue:
PROPOR'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper presents work on the automatic creation of a polarity lexicon based on a lexical-semantic network. During this work, we noticed that the language registers of a relation should be considered in polarity propagation. After analysing the possible registers and performing some experiments, our intuition was confirmed --- there are registers that should invert the transmitted polarity (irony), while others always transmit negative polarity (pejorative, disparaging).