Affective lexicon creation for the Greek languageAffective lexicon creation for the Greek language Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο Conference Full Paper 2018-11-192016enStarting from the English affective lexicon ANEW (Bradley and Lang, 1999a) we have created the first Greek affective lexicon. It contains human ratings for the three continuous affective dimensions of valence, arousal and dominance for 1034 words. The Greek affective lexicon is compared with affective lexica in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The lexicon is automatically expanded by selecting a small number of manually annotated words to bootstrap the process of estimating affective ratings of unknown words. We experimented with the parameters of the semantic-affective model in order to investigate their impact to its performance, which reaches 85% binary classification accuracy (positive vs. negative ratings). We share the Greek affective lexicon that consists of 1034 words and the automatically expanded Greek affective lexicon that contains 407K words.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/2867-287210th International Conference on Language Resources and EvaluationProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Palogiannidi Elisavet Παλογιαννιδη Ελισαβετ Koutsakis Polychronis Κουτσακης Πολυχρονης Iosif Ilias Ιωσηφ Ηλιας Potamianos, Alexandros European Language Resources Association (ELRA) Affective lexicon Affective ratings Arousal Dominance Emotion recognition Semantic similarity Sentiment analysis Valence