Int. J. Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, Vol. X, No. Y, xxxx 1 Copyright © 20XX Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Lexicon-based sentiment analysis on movie review in the Gujarati language Parita Shah* Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India and Gandhinagar Institute of Technology, Khatraj-Kalol Road, Moti Bhoyan, Gandhinagar District, Kalol, Gujarat, India Email: paritaponkiya@gmail.com *Corresponding author Priya Swaminarayan Faculty of IT and CS, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Email: priya.swaminarayan@paruluniversity.ac.in Abstract: Film assessment helps watchers with choosing if the film merits their time. A rundown of all surveys for a film can helps watchers to make a suitable selection without the wastage of users’ time by considering all checks. For the assistant of viewers, cinema review pages are available with film critics offered by various cinema experts. Sentiment examination can decide the mentality of experts relying upon their audits. The process of film review categorisation into positive and negative grade is called movie review sentiment analysis. Therefore, this paper presents our exploratory work on execution assessment of the SentiWordNet approach for record level estimation characterisation of movie surveys available in the Gujarati language. The paper additionally presents an evaluative record of the execution of the resource-based film sentiment classification using the GujaratiSentiWordNet (BagofWords) technique for the movie review dataset created in the Gujarati language. Keywords: Gujarati SentimentWordNet; Hindi SentiWordNet; IndowordNet; Gujarati dataset; sentiment analysis; natural language processing; lexicon-based. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Shah, P. and Swaminarayan, P. (xxxx) ‘Lexicon-based sentiment analysis on movie review in the Gujarati language’, Int. J. Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, Vol. X, No. Y, pp.000-000. Biographical notes: Parita Shah is a PhD scholar in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology Department, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat. She completed her BE in Computer Engineering from the Gujarat University and ME in Information Technology from the Gujarat Technical University. She published and presented research articles in the international/national level of