An empirical analysis of lexical polarity and contextual valence shifters for opinion classification

This work is concerned with the automatic understanding of evaluative text. We investigate sentence level opinion polarity prediction by assigning lexical polarities and deriving sentence polarity from these with the use of contextual valence shifters. A methodology for iterative failure analysis is...

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Main Author: Longton, Adam
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4180