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+# Hebrew VAD Lexicon
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+The **Hebrew VAD Lexicon** is an enhanced version of an automatically translated affective lexicon, originally derived from the English VAD lexicon created by [Mohammad (2018)](https://saifmohammad.com/WebDocs/acl2018-VAD.pdf) . 
+It provides valence, arousal, and dominance (VAD) scores for Hebrew words. 
+The lexicon was carefully curated by manually reviewing and correcting the automatic translations and enriching the dataset with additional linguistic information.
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+## Details
+- **Valence** (or pleasure) measures the positivity or negativity of an emotion.
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+- **Arousal** quantifies the intensity of an emotion, from calm to excited.
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+- **Dominance** represents the degree of control conveyed by a word, from submissive to dominant.
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+The lexicon is derived from an English VAD resource, originally created by
+Mohammad (2018), which has been adapted to Hebrew by:
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+- Correcting inaccuracies in the automatic translation.
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+- Converting words from dotted (diacriticized) Hebrew to undotted (non-diacriticized) Hebrew.
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+- Adding lemma forms and alternative translations or synonyms.
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+- Assigning VAD scores consistently across enriched word forms.
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+## Motivation and Use Cases
+
+VAD annotations provide a nuanced representation of emotions in text and are widely used in sentiment analysis, emotion classification, and affective computing. While designed at the word level, the lexicon has been successfully applied to longer texts such as sentences and documents.
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+## Citation
+TBD