Sentiment Index of the Russian Speaking Facebook

Abstract

A sentiment index measures the average emotional level in a corpus. We introduce four such indexes and use them to gauge average "positiveness" of a population during some period based on posts in a social network. This article for the first time presents a text-, rather than word-based sentiment index. Furthermore, this study presents the first large-scale study of the sentiment index of the Russian-speaking Facebook. Our results are consistent with the prior experiments for the English language.

In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies (Dialogue'2014). Moscow, Russia. RGGU