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    A Machine Learning Approach For Opinion Holder Extraction In Arabic Language

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    Opinion mining aims at extracting useful subjective information from reliable amounts of text. Opinion mining holder recognition is a task that has not been considered yet in Arabic Language. This task essentially requires deep understanding of clauses structures. Unfortunately, the lack of a robust, publicly available, Arabic parser further complicates the research. This paper presents a leading research for the opinion holder extraction in Arabic news independent from any lexical parsers. We investigate constructing a comprehensive feature set to compensate the lack of parsing structural outcomes. The proposed feature set is tuned from English previous works coupled with our proposed semantic field and named entities features. Our feature analysis is based on Conditional Random Fields (CRF) and semi-supervised pattern recognition techniques. Different research models are evaluated via cross-validation experiments achieving 54.03 F-measure. We publicly release our own research outcome corpus and lexicon for opinion mining community to encourage further research

    FATS: a framework for annotation of travel blogs based on subjectivity

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    This paper describes a framework for annotation on travel blogs based on subjectivity (FATS). The framework has the capability to auto-annotate -sentence by sentence- sections from blogs (posts) about travelling in the Spanish language. FATS is used in this experiment to annotate com- ponents from travel blogs in order to create a corpus of 300 annotated posts. Each subjective element in a sentence is annotated as positive or negative as appropriate. Currently correct annotations add up to about 95 per cent in our subset of the travel domain. By means of an iterative process of annotation we can create a subjectively annotated domain specific corpus

    New features for sentiment analysis: Do sentences matter?

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    1st International Workshop on Sentiment Discovery from Affective Data 2012, SDAD 2012 - In Conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2012; Bristol; United Kingdom; 28 September 2012 through 28 September 2012In this work, we propose and evaluate new features to be used in a word polarity based approach to sentiment classification. In particular, we analyze sentences as the first step before estimating the overall review polarity. We consider different aspects of sentences, such as length, purity, irrealis content, subjectivity, and position within the opinionated text. This analysis is then used to find sentences that may convey better information about the overall review polarity. The TripAdvisor dataset is used to evaluate the effect of sentence level features on polarity classification. Our initial results indicate a small improvement in classification accuracy when using the newly proposed features. However, the benefit of these features is not limited to improving sentiment classification accuracy since sentence level features can be used for other important tasks such as review summarization.European Commission, FP7, under UBIPOL (Ubiquitous Participation Platform for Policy Making) Projec

    Distinguishing between factual information and insulting or abusive messages bearing words or phrases in news articles

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    This thesis report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, 2006.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis report.Includes bibliographical references (page 75).Since Internet has become the leading source of information for the users, flames or abusive messages have also become the prominent factors of time wasting for retrieving information. Moreover, a text can contain factual information as well as abusive or insulting contents. This paper describes a new approach for an automated system to distinguish between information and personal attack containing insulting or abusive messages in a given document. In NLP, flames or abusive messages are considered as extreme subjective language, which refers to detect personal opinions or emotions in a news article. Insulting or abusive messages are viewed as extreme subset of the subjective language because of its extreme nature. We defined some rules to extract the semantic information of a given sentence from the general semantic structure of that sentence.Altaf MahmudKazi Zubair AhmedB. Computer Science and Engineerin

    A Smart Sentiment Analysis System in Word, Sentence and Text Level

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    Abstract. Recently, sentiment analysis of text is becoming a hotspot in the study of natural language processing, which has drawn interesting attention due to its research value and extensive applications. This paper introduces a smart sentiment analysis system, which is to satisfy three aspects of sentiment analysis requirement. These are Chinese sentiment word recognition and analysis, sentiment related element extraction and text orientation analysis. Promising results and analysis are presented at the end of this paper

    A study of feature exraction techniques for classifying topics and sentiments from news posts

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    Recently, many news channels have their own Facebook pages in which news posts have been released in a daily basis. Consequently, these news posts contain temporal opinions about social events that may change over time due to external factors as well as may use as a monitor to the significant events happened around the world. As a result, many text mining researches have been conducted in the area of Temporal Sentiment Analysis, which one of its most challenging tasks is to detect and extract the key features from news posts that arrive continuously overtime. However, extracting these features is a challenging task due to postโ€™s complex properties, also posts about a specific topic may grow or vanish overtime leading in producing imbalanced datasets. Thus, this study has developed a comparative analysis on feature extraction Techniques which has examined various feature extraction techniques (TF-IDF, TF, BTO, IG, Chi-square) with three different n-gram features (Unigram, Bigram, Trigram), and using SVM as a classifier. The aim of this study is to discover the optimal Feature Extraction Technique (FET) that could achieve optimum accuracy results for both topic and sentiment classification. Accordingly, this analysis is conducted on three news channelsโ€™ datasets. The experimental results for topic classification have shown that Chi-square with unigram have proven to be the best FET compared to other techniques. Furthermore, to overcome the problem of imbalanced data, this study has combined the best FET with OverSampling technology. The evaluation results have shown an improvement in classifierโ€™s performance and has achieved a higher accuracy at 93.37%, 92.89%, and 91.92 for BBC, Al-Arabiya, and Al-Jazeera, respectively, compared to what have been obtained on original datasets. Similarly, same combination (Chi-square+Unigram) has been used for sentiment classification and obtained accuracies at rates of 81.87%, 70.01%, 77.36%. However, testing the recognized optimal FET on unseen randomly selected news posts has shown a relatively very low accuracies for both topic and sentiment classification due to the changes of topics and sentiments over time

    Sentiment Polarity Classification of Comments on Korean News Articles Using Feature Reweighting

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    ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์‹ ๋ฌธ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์€ ๊ทธ ์‹ ๋ฌธ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฃผ๊ด€์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ •์ด๋‚˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์‹ ๋ฌธ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ ์‹ ๋ฌธ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ์›๋ฌธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นœ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ ์— ์ฐฉ์•ˆํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ณธ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ์›๋ฌธ ๋‚ด์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ • ์‚ฌ์ „์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ค‘์น˜ ์กฐ์ • ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ•˜๊ณ , ์ œ์•ˆ๋œ ๊ฐ€์ค‘์น˜ ์กฐ์ • ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ด์šฉํ•ด์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์‹ ๋ฌธ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ์ • ์ด์ง„ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์ค‘์น˜ ์กฐ์ • ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์—๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ž์งˆ ์ง‘ํ•ฉ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์— ํฌํ•จ๋œ ๊ฐ์ • ๋‹จ์–ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ์ • ์‚ฌ์ „๊ณผ ๋‰ด์Šค ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ณธ๋ฌธ์— ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ž์งˆ๋“ค, ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๋‰ด์Šค ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ์ • ์‚ฌ์ „์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๊ฐ์ • ์‚ฌ์ „์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์•„์ง ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๊ธฐ์กด์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜์–ด ๊ฐ์ • ์‚ฌ์ „์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ œ์•ˆ๋œ ๊ฐ์ • ์ด์ง„ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ณ„ ํ•™์Šต์„ ์ด์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„ ํ•™์Šต์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ํ•™์Šต ๋ง๋ญ‰์น˜๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ๊ฐ์ • ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ธ์ • ํ˜น์€ ๋ถ€์ • ๊ฐ์ • ํƒœ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์ฐฉ๋œ ๋ง๋ญ‰์น˜๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ง๋ญ‰์น˜์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„, ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๊ฐ์ • ๋ง๋ญ‰์น˜๊ฐ€ ์•„์ง ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ง๋ญ‰์น˜๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋œ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„ ํ•™์Šต ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ๋Š” Na&iumlve Bayes, k-NN, SVM์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ž์งˆ ์„ ํƒ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ๋Š” Document Frequency, ฯ‡^2 statistic, Information Gain์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋Œ“๊ธ€ ์•ˆ์— ํฌํ•จ๋œ ๊ฐ์ • ๋‹จ์–ด์™€ ๊ทธ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ ๋ณธ๋ฌธ์ด ๊ฐ์ • ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜์— ๋งค์šฐ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ์ž์งˆ์ž„์„ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 Related Works 4 2.1 Sentiment Classification 4 2.2 Feature Weighting in Vector Space Model 5 2.3 Feature Extraction and Selection 7 2.4 Classifiers 10 2.5 Accuracy Measures 14 Chapter 3 Feature Reweighting 16 3.1 Feature extraction in Korean 16 3.2 Feature Reweighting Methods 17 3.3 Examples of Feature Reweighting Methods 18 Chapter 4 Sentiment Polarity Classification System 21 4.1 Model Generation 21 4.2 Sentiment Polarity Classification 23 Chapter 5 Data Preparation 25 5.1 Korean Sentiment Corpus 25 5.2 Korean Sentiment Lexicon 27 Chapter 6 Experiments 29 6.1 Experimental Environment 29 6.2 Experimental Results 30 Chapter 7 Conclusions and Future Works 38 Bibliography 40 Acknowledgments 4

    The good, the bad and the implicit: a comprehensive approach to annotating explicit and implicit sentiment

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    We present a fine-grained scheme for the annotation of polar sentiment in text, that accounts for explicit sentiment (so-called private states), as well as implicit expressions of sentiment (polar facts). Polar expressions are annotated below sentence level and classified according to their subjectivity status. Additionally, they are linked to one or more targets with a specific polar orientation and intensity. Other components of the annotation scheme include source attribution and the identification and classification of expressions that modify polarity. In previous research, little attention has been given to implicit sentiment, which represents a substantial amount of the polar expressions encountered in our data. An English and Dutch corpus of financial newswire, consisting of over 45,000 words each, was annotated using our scheme. A subset of this corpus was used to conduct an inter-annotator agreement study, which demonstrated that the proposed scheme can be used to reliably annotate explicit and implicit sentiment in real-world textual data, making the created corpora a useful resource for sentiment analysis
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