Summary of the paper
| Title | Towards Building Annotated Resources for Analyzing Opinions and Argumentation in News Editorials |
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| Authors | Bal Krishna Bal and Patrick Saint Dizier |
| Abstract | This paper describes an annotation scheme for argumentation in opinionatedtexts such as newspaper editorials, developed from a corpus of approximately500 English texts from Nepali and international newspaper sources. We presentthe results of analysis and evaluation of the corpus annotation ― currently,the inter-annotator agreement kappa value being 0.80 which indicatessubstantial agreement between the annotators. We also discuss some oflinguistic resources (key factors for distinguishing facts from opinions,opinion lexicon, intensifier lexicon, pre-modifier lexicon, modal verb lexicon,reporting verb lexicon, general opinion patterns from the corpus etc.) developed as a result of our corpus analysis, which can be used to identify anopinion or a controversial issue, arguments supporting an opinion, orientation of the supporting arguments and their strength (intrinsic, relativeand in terms of persuasion). These resources form the backbone of our workespecially for performing the opinion analysis in the lower levels, i.e., inthe lexical and sentence levels. Finally, we shed light on the perspectives ofthe given work clearly outlining the challenges. |
| Language | Emotion Recognition/Generation |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Discourse annotation, representation and processing, Emotion Recognition/Generation |
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Towards Building Annotated Resources for Analyzing Opinions and Argumentation in News Editorials |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{BAL10.677, author = {Bal Krishna Bal and Patrick Saint Dizier}, title = {Towards Building Annotated Resources for Analyzing Opinions and Argumentation in News Editorials}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |