Summary of the paper
| Title | Sentiment Analysis in the News |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandra Balahur, Ralf Steinberger, Mijail Kabadjov, Vanni Zavarella, Erik van der Goot, Matina Halkia, Bruno Pouliquen and Jenya Belyaeva |
| Abstract | Recent years have brought a significant growth in the volume of research insentiment analysis, mostly on highly subjective text types (movie or productreviews). The main difference these texts have with news articles is that theirtarget is clearly defined and unique across the text. Following differentannotation efforts and the analysis of the issues encountered, we realised thatnews opinion mining is different from that of other text types. We identifiedthree subtasks that need to be addressed: definition of the target; separationof the good and bad news content from the good and bad sentiment expressed onthe target; and analysis of clearly marked opinion that is expressedexplicitly, not needing interpretation or the use of world knowledge.Furthermore, we distinguish three different possible views on newspaperarticles ― author, reader and text, which have to be addressed differently atthe time of analysing sentiment. Given these definitions, we present work onmining opinions about entities in English language news, in which we applythese concepts. Results showed that this idea is more appropriatein the context of news opinion mining and that the approaches taking this intoconsideration produce a better performance. |
| Language | Emotion Recognition/Generation |
| Topics | Text mining, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Emotion Recognition/Generation |
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Sentiment Analysis in the News |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{BALAHUR10.909, author = {Alexandra Balahur, Ralf Steinberger, Mijail Kabadjov, Vanni Zavarella, Erik van der Goot, Matina Halkia, Bruno Pouliquen and Jenya Belyaeva}, title = {Sentiment Analysis in the News}, 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} } |