Syntactically and Semantically Annotated Hindi Corpus for an Opinion Mining System

Opinion mining, a field of Information Retrieval and Text Processing, has variety of applications in domains like business analytics, social reforms, politics, agriculture, youth psychology analysis, and mapping of future research directions. Lack of annotated corpus and lexical resources in Hindi is one of the reasons why opinion mining applications for Hindi web contents do not scale up to their English counterparts. In an ongoing research, the authors of this paper have developed a semantically and syntactically annotated corpus in the domain of home remedies from Hindi Weblogs. The objective of the development of corpus, methodologies used and outcomes in its current state are discussed in this paper. The corpus is being developed with an objective to develop an opinion mining system in the domain of food and health issues for Hindi text from weblogs. The corpus is expected to be useful to other researchers developing applications for Hindi web contents in the area of opinion mining and related fields.