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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).
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Santos, A.P., Oliveira, H.G., Ramos, C., Marques, N.C. (2012). The Role of Language Registers in Polarity Propagation. In: Caseli, H., Villavicencio, A., Teixeira, A., Perdigão, F. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_27
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