Semantic Sentiment Analysis Challenge @ ESWC 2016 - Task #5 Training Dataset Released

[Diego Reforgiato]

Dear All,

the training dataset for the Task #5 of the Semantic Sentiment Analysis challenge of ESWC 2016 has been released.

The dataset contains simple sentences in general domain using around 20 different VerbNet verbs.

The test set will be released during the month of April and it will contain sentences coming from the same domains and using 20 more VerbNet verbs.

Apart from this training set, you are allowed to use any other resource and knowledge base for building your models.

Please follow the links below for downloading the dataset and for further resources.

Challenge information: http://2016.eswc-conferences.org/eswc-16-challenge-semantic-sentiment-analysis

Training dataset: https://github.com/diegoref/SSA2016/blob/master/task5First50.xml

Resources (not limited to these ones)

Sentic.Net: http://sentic.net/downloads/

General Inquirer: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~inquirer/homecat.htm

Even if you are not planning to compete in the challenge, please consider to adopt the dataset also for training and evaluating your approaches.

Submissions to the Semantic Sentiment Analysis workshop are welcome.

Workshop information: http://www.maurodragoni.com/research/opinionmining/events/

For any question, do not hesitate to contact the chairs.

Kind regards.