There are publicly available general purpose sentiment lexicons in some high
resource languages but very few exist in the low resource languages. This makes
it difficult to directly perform sentiment analysis tasks in such languages.
The objective of this work is to create a general purpose sentiment lexicon for
the Igbo language that can determine the sentiment of documents written in the
Igbo language without having to translate it to the English language. The
material used was an automatically translated lexicon by Liu and the manual
addition of Igbo native words. The result of this work is a general purpose
lexicon called IgboSentilex. The performance was tested on the BBC Igbo news
channel. It returned an average polarity agreement of 95.75 percent with other
general purpose sentiment lexicons.

本篇研究的目标是创建一个通用的情感词典（lexicon）来判断以 Igbo 语言写成的文件的情感，而无需将其翻译成英语。该研究使用 Liu 自动翻译的词典和手动添加的 Igbo 本地词汇构建了一个名为 IgboSentilex 的情感词典，并在 BBC Igbo 新闻频道进行了性能测试。结果表明，与其他通用情感词典相比，平均极性一致性高达 95.75％。