Words play a central role in language and thought. Factor analysis studies have shown that the primary dimensions of meaning are valence, arousal, and dominance (VAD). We present the NRC VAD Lexicon, which has human ratings of valence, arousal, and dominance for more than 20,000 English words. We use Best-Worst Scaling to obtain fine-grained scores and address issues of annotation consistency that plague traditional rating scale methods of annotation. We show that the ratings obtained are vastly more reliable than those in existing lexicons. We also show that there exist statistically significant differences in the shared understanding of valence, arousal, and dominance across demographic variables such as age, gender, and personality.
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机译：言语在语言和思想中发挥着核心作用。因子分析研究表明，意义的主要尺寸是价，唤醒和优势（VAD）。我们介绍了NRC VAD Lexicon，其具有人类的价值，唤醒和占主导地位，以超过20,000多个英语单词。我们使用最糟糕的缩放来获得细粒度的分数和解决困扰的注释一致性问题，损失了传统评级的注释方法。我们表明所获得的评级比现有词汇的评级更可靠。我们还表明，在年龄，性别和个性等人口变量中，对价变量的共同理解存在统计学意义的差异。
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