Abstract

PEREZ PEREZ, Carlos Mario; QUIROZ HERRERA, Gabriel Ángel  and  TAMAYO HERRERA, Antonio Jesús. DOES PREDICATIVE STRUCTURE [VERB + DIRECT OBJECT] HAVE PREDICTIVE CHARACTER? A SYNTACTIC-SEMANTIC CHARACTERIZATION FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS PURPOSES. Linguist.lit. [online]. 2020, n.78, pp.11-34.  Epub Nov 09, 2021. ISSN 0120-5587.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n78a01.

Traditionally, sentiment analysis has focused on processing less complex textual units, as sentences, through detailed characterization of their components like adjectives. However, there are other types of units, such as predicative structures, that might be discriminant elements of more complex discursive units like the news. Thus, in this article, word occurrences of the predicative structure [verb + direct object] are extracted and characterized from a corpus on poverty compiled from Colombian newspapers. The results demonstrate that these units are discriminant and might help with polarity classification.

Keywords : sentiment analysis; verb; direct object complement; poverty in Colombia; corpus linguistics.

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