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    Topic-dependent sentiment analysis of financial blogs

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    While most work in sentiment analysis in the financial domain has focused on the use of content from traditional finance news, in this work we concentrate on more subjective sources of information, blogs. We aim to automatically determine the sentiment of financial bloggers towards companies and their stocks. To do this we develop a corpus of financial blogs, annotated with polarity of sentiment with respect to a number of companies. We conduct an analysis of the annotated corpus, from which we show there is a significant level of topic shift within this collection, and also illustrate the difficulty that human annotators have when annotating certain sentiment categories. To deal with the problem of topic shift within blog articles, we propose text extraction techniques to create topic-specific sub-documents, which we use to train a sentiment classifier. We show that such approaches provide a substantial improvement over full documentclassification and that word-based approaches perform better than sentence-based or paragraph-based approaches

    Combining granularity-based topic-dependent and topic-independent evidences for opinion detection

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    Fouille des opinion, une sous-discipline dans la recherche d'information (IR) et la linguistique computationnelle, fait rĂ©fĂ©rence aux techniques de calcul pour l'extraction, la classification, la comprĂ©hension et l'Ă©valuation des opinions exprimĂ©es par diverses sources de nouvelles en ligne, social commentaires des mĂ©dias, et tout autre contenu gĂ©nĂ©rĂ© par l'utilisateur. Il est Ă©galement connu par de nombreux autres termes comme trouver l'opinion, la dĂ©tection d'opinion, l'analyse des sentiments, la classification sentiment, de dĂ©tection de polaritĂ©, etc. DĂ©finition dans le contexte plus spĂ©cifique et plus simple, fouille des opinion est la tĂąche de rĂ©cupĂ©ration des opinions contre son besoin aussi exprimĂ© par l'utilisateur sous la forme d'une requĂȘte. Il y a de nombreux problĂšmes et dĂ©fis liĂ©s Ă  l'activitĂ© fouille des opinion. Dans cette thĂšse, nous nous concentrons sur quelques problĂšmes d'analyse d'opinion. L'un des dĂ©fis majeurs de fouille des opinion est de trouver des opinions concernant spĂ©cifiquement le sujet donnĂ© (requĂȘte). Un document peut contenir des informations sur de nombreux sujets Ă  la fois et il est possible qu'elle contienne opiniĂątre texte sur chacun des sujet ou sur seulement quelques-uns. Par consĂ©quent, il devient trĂšs important de choisir les segments du document pertinentes Ă  sujet avec leurs opinions correspondantes. Nous abordons ce problĂšme sur deux niveaux de granularitĂ©, des phrases et des passages. Dans notre premiĂšre approche de niveau de phrase, nous utilisons des relations sĂ©mantiques de WordNet pour trouver cette association entre sujet et opinion. Dans notre deuxiĂšme approche pour le niveau de passage, nous utilisons plus robuste modĂšle de RI i.e. la language modĂšle de se concentrer sur ce problĂšme. L'idĂ©e de base derriĂšre les deux contributions pour l'association d'opinion-sujet est que si un document contient plus segments textuels (phrases ou passages) opiniĂątre et pertinentes Ă  sujet, il est plus opiniĂątre qu'un document avec moins segments textuels opiniĂątre et pertinentes. La plupart des approches d'apprentissage-machine basĂ©e Ă  fouille des opinion sont dĂ©pendants du domaine i.e. leurs performances varient d'un domaine Ă  d'autre. D'autre part, une approche indĂ©pendant de domaine ou un sujet est plus gĂ©nĂ©ralisĂ©e et peut maintenir son efficacitĂ© dans diffĂ©rents domaines. Cependant, les approches indĂ©pendant de domaine souffrent de mauvaises performances en gĂ©nĂ©ral. C'est un grand dĂ©fi dans le domaine de fouille des opinion Ă  dĂ©velopper une approche qui est plus efficace et gĂ©nĂ©ralisĂ©. Nos contributions de cette thĂšse incluent le dĂ©veloppement d'une approche qui utilise de simples fonctions heuristiques pour trouver des documents opiniĂątre. Fouille des opinion basĂ©e entitĂ© devient trĂšs populaire parmi les chercheurs de la communautĂ© IR. Il vise Ă  identifier les entitĂ©s pertinentes pour un sujet donnĂ© et d'en extraire les opinions qui leur sont associĂ©es Ă  partir d'un ensemble de documents textuels. Toutefois, l'identification et la dĂ©termination de la pertinence des entitĂ©s est dĂ©jĂ  une tĂąche difficile. Nous proposons un systĂšme qui prend en compte Ă  la fois l'information de l'article de nouvelles en cours ainsi que des articles antĂ©rieurs pertinents afin de dĂ©tecter les entitĂ©s les plus importantes dans les nouvelles actuelles. En plus de cela, nous prĂ©sentons Ă©galement notre cadre d'analyse d'opinion et tĂąches relieĂ©s. Ce cadre est basĂ©e sur les Ă©vidences contents et les Ă©vidences sociales de la blogosphĂšre pour les tĂąches de trouver des opinions, de prĂ©vision et d'avis de classement multidimensionnel. Cette contribution d'prĂ©maturĂ©e pose les bases pour nos travaux futurs. L'Ă©valuation de nos mĂ©thodes comprennent l'utilisation de TREC 2006 Blog collection et de TREC Novelty track 2004 collection. La plupart des Ă©valuations ont Ă©tĂ© rĂ©alisĂ©es dans le cadre de TREC Blog track.Opinion mining is a sub-discipline within Information Retrieval (IR) and Computational Linguistics. It refers to the computational techniques for extracting, classifying, understanding, and assessing the opinions expressed in various online sources like news articles, social media comments, and other user-generated content. It is also known by many other terms like opinion finding, opinion detection, sentiment analysis, sentiment classification, polarity detection, etc. Defining in more specific and simpler context, opinion mining is the task of retrieving opinions on an issue as expressed by the user in the form of a query. There are many problems and challenges associated with the field of opinion mining. In this thesis, we focus on some major problems of opinion mining

    Semi-Supervised Learning For Identifying Opinions In Web Content

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    Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Information Science, 2011Opinions published on the World Wide Web (Web) offer opportunities for detecting personal attitudes regarding topics, products, and services. The opinion detection literature indicates that both a large body of opinions and a wide variety of opinion features are essential for capturing subtle opinion information. Although a large amount of opinion-labeled data is preferable for opinion detection systems, opinion-labeled data is often limited, especially at sub-document levels, and manual annotation is tedious, expensive and error-prone. This shortage of opinion-labeled data is less challenging in some domains (e.g., movie reviews) than in others (e.g., blog posts). While a simple method for improving accuracy in challenging domains is to borrow opinion-labeled data from a non-target data domain, this approach often fails because of the domain transfer problem: Opinion detection strategies designed for one data domain generally do not perform well in another domain. However, while it is difficult to obtain opinion-labeled data, unlabeled user-generated opinion data are readily available. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) requires only limited labeled data to automatically label unlabeled data and has achieved promising results in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including traditional topic classification; but SSL has been applied in only a few opinion detection studies. This study investigates application of four different SSL algorithms in three types of Web content: edited news articles, semi-structured movie reviews, and the informal and unstructured content of the blogosphere. SSL algorithms are also evaluated for their effectiveness in sparse data situations and domain adaptation. Research findings suggest that, when there is limited labeled data, SSL is a promising approach for opinion detection in Web content. Although the contributions of SSL varied across data domains, significant improvement was demonstrated for the most challenging data domain--the blogosphere--when a domain transfer-based SSL strategy was implemented

    BlogForever D2.6: Data Extraction Methodology

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    This report outlines an inquiry into the area of web data extraction, conducted within the context of blog preservation. The report reviews theoretical advances and practical developments for implementing data extraction. The inquiry is extended through an experiment that demonstrates the effectiveness and feasibility of implementing some of the suggested approaches. More specifically, the report discusses an approach based on unsupervised machine learning that employs the RSS feeds and HTML representations of blogs. It outlines the possibilities of extracting semantics available in blogs and demonstrates the benefits of exploiting available standards such as microformats and microdata. The report proceeds to propose a methodology for extracting and processing blog data to further inform the design and development of the BlogForever platform
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