Communication score lexicon

This lexicon was developed in the context of measuring “openness of communication” in the paper named  ''Predicting Openness of Communication in Families with Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome: Natural Language Processing Analysis''. To develop an “openness of communication” score we built a lexicon containing words and phrases linked to communication and we classified them as positive or negative.

The lexicon contains 532 items (132 unigrams, 215 bigrams, 185 trigrams). Two people independently created the scoring of N-grams in the lexicon as positive or negative. More specifically, they evaluated each item on a 7-point scale on how favorable the items measure “openness of communication”. Scoring values ranged from -3 (extremely strong negative word related to communication) to +3 (extremely strong positive word related to communication).