Day 8.Developing Simplified Chinese Psychological Linguistic Analysis Dictionary for Microblog

Title:
Developing Simplified Chinese Psychological Linguistic Analysis Dictionary for Microblog
为微博开发简体中文心理语言分析词典

Keywords:
LIWC,
Traditional Chinese, 繁体中文
Simplified Chinese, 简体中文
microblog, 微博
text analysis. 文本分析

Abstract:
The words that people use could reveal their emotional states, intentions, thinking styles, individual differences, etc. LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) has been widely used for psychological text analysis, and its dictionary is the core. The Traditional Chinese version of LIWC dictionary has been released, which is a translation of LIWC English dictionary. However, Simplified Chinese which is the world’s most widely used language has subtle differences with Traditional Chinese. Furthermore, both English LIWC dictionary and Traditional Chinese version dictionary were both developed for relatively formal text. Microblog has become more and m