Detecting Sentiment in Nepali Texts

A Bootstrap Approach for Sentiment Analysis of texts in the Nepali

Language By:

Chandan Goopta

And

Bal Krishna Bal

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Challenges With Nepali NLP

Challenges In Nepali NLP

Comparison Of Status Of NLP Ingredients In English Indic and Nepali

Language

Challenges Non-Unicode Texts No Corpus Very Few Previous Works

One Possible Solution

Work From Scratch

Development Of SentiWord Net Aka

Bhawanakosh

Easy But less effective way out

Resources Built:

SeniWordNet :A look At Bhawana Kosh

Nepali sentiment Corpus

Results and Evaluation

Future Work and Enhancement

• Development of high-accuracy POS tagger •Assigning polarity to SentiWordNet Words •Adding words in Subjectivity Clue list •Annotation of documents for populating corpus •Populating training set •Rules to tackle language peculiarities and ambiguities

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