Exploiting Emotive Features for the Sentiment Polarity Classification of tweets

This paper describes the CoLing Lab system for the participation in the constrained run of the EVALITA 2016 SENTIment POLarity Classification Task (Barbieri et al., 2016). The system extends the approach in (Passaro et al., 2014) with emotive features extracted from ItEM (Passaro et al., 2015; Passaro and Lenci, 2016) and FB-NEWS15 (Passaro et al., 2016).