Multilingual Connotation Frames: A Case Study on Social Media for Targeted Sentiment Analysis and Forecast

Hannah Rashkin, Eric Bell, Yejin Choi, Svitlana Volkova

Abstract: People around the globe respond to major real world events through social media. To study targeted public sentiments across many languages and geographic locations, we introduce multilingual connotation frames: an extension from English connotation frames of Rashkin et al. (2016) with 10 additional European languages, focusing on the implied sentiments among event participants engaged in a frame. As a case study, we present large scale analysis on targeted public sentiments toward salient events and entities using 1.2 million multilingual connotation frames extracted from Twitter.