Thérèse Bergsma author Judith van Stegeren author Mariët Theune author 2020-may text English eng European Language Resources Association Marseille, France conference publication 979-10-95546-40-5 A weak point of rule-based sentiment analysis systems is that the underlying sentiment lexicons are often not adapted to the domain of the text we want to analyze. We created a game-specific sentiment lexicon for video game Skyrim based on the E-ANEW word list and a dataset of Skyrim’s in-game documents. We calculated sentiment ratings for NPC dialogue using both our lexicon and E-ANEW and compared the resulting sentiment ratings to those of human raters. Both lexicons perform comparably well on our evaluation dialogues, but the game-specific extension performs slightly better on the dominance dimension for dialogue segments and the arousal dimension for full dialogues. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a sentiment analysis lexicon has been adapted to the video game domain. bergsma-etal-2020-creating https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.gamnlp-1.1 2020-may 1 9