A Unified Feature Representation for Lexical Connotations
Table 2: Class distributions in the connotation lexicon for fully-labeled words.
['[EMPTY]', '[BOLD] % +', '[BOLD] % −']
We find that many aspects exhibit uneven class distributions (e.g., 10.5% of words are polite and only 1% are impolite) For emotions, we calculate the class distribution using the number of fully-labeled words with at least one associated emotion (1,373 words or 18%). For these 1,373 words, the average number of associated emotions is ∼2. Our distributions are similar to previous work on verb connotations, where distributions range from 1.4% to 20.2% for the smallest class [rashkin-etal-2016-connotation].