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Rule-based Opinion Target and Aspect Extraction to Acquire Affective Knowledge

Gindl, Stefan and Weichselbraun, Albert and Scharl, Arno (2013) Rule-based Opinion Target and Aspect Extraction to Acquire Affective Knowledge. In: WWW Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Big Social Data Analysis (MABSDA-2013).

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Abstract

Opinion holder and opinion target extraction are among the most popular and challenging problems tackled by opinion mining researchers, recognizing the significant business value of such components and their importance for applications such as media monitoring and Web intelligence. This paper describes an approach that combines opinion target extraction with aspect extraction using syntactic patterns. It expands previous work limited by sentence boundaries and includes a heuristic for anaphora resolution to identify targets across sentences. Furthermore, it demonstrates the application of concepts known from research on open information extraction to the identification of relevant opinion aspects. Qualitative analyses performed on a corpus of 100 000 Amazon product reviews show that the approach is promising. The extracted opinion targets and aspects are useful for enriching common knowledge resources and opinion mining ontologies, and support practitioners and researchers to identify opinions in document collections.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:Opinion mining, opinion target extraction, opinion aspect extraction
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science
ID Code:66
Deposited By: Prof Dr Arno Scharl
Deposited On:15 May 2013 08:40
Last Modified:08 Nov 2013 01:25

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