Spanish corpora for sentiment analysis: a survey

Corpora play an important role when training machine learning systems for sentiment analysis. However, Spanish is underrepresented in these corpora, as most primarily include English texts. This paper describes 20 Spanish-language text corpora—collected to support different tasks related to sentiment analysis, ranging from polarity to emotion categorization. We present a brand-new framework for the characterization of corpora. This includes a number of features to help analyze resources at both corpus level and document level. This survey—besides depicting the overall landscape of corpora in Spanish—supports sentiment analysis practitioners with the task of selecting the most suitable resources.

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