SB-CH: A Swiss German Corpus with Sentiment Annotations

Ralf Grubenmann, Don Tuggener, Pius von Däniken, Jan Deriu, Mark Cieliebak

Abstract: We present the SB-CH corpus, a novel Swiss German corpus with annotations for sentiment analysis. It consists of more than 200,000 phrases (approx. 1 Mio tokens) from Facebook comments and online chats. Additionally, we provide sentiment annotations for almost 2000 Swiss German phrases. We describe the methodologies used in the collection and annotation of the data, and provide the first baseline results for Swiss German sentiment analysis.