We propose an Economic Lexicon (EL) specifically designed for textual applications in economics. We construct the dictionary with two important characteristics: 1) to have a wide coverage of terms used in documents discussing economic concepts, and 2) to provide a human-annotated sentiment score in the range [-1,1]. We illustrate the use of the EL in the context of a simple sentiment measure and consider several applications in economics. The comparison to other lexicons shows that the EL is superior due to its wider coverage of domain relevant terms and its more accurate categorization of the word sentiment.

翻译：我们提出了一种专门为经济学文本应用设计的《经济词典》（EL）。该词典的构建具有两个重要特征：1）广泛覆盖讨论经济概念的文档中使用的术语；2）提供人工标注的[-1,1]区间情感评分。我们通过一个简单的情感度量示例说明EL的使用方法，并探讨其在经济学中的若干应用场景。与其他词典的对比表明，EL因其对领域相关术语更广泛的覆盖范围及更准确的词语情感分类而具有优越性。