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Analyzing Sentiment Word Relations with Affect, Judgment, and Appreciation

TitleAnalyzing Sentiment Word Relations with Affect, Judgment, and Appreciation
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsNeviarouskaya A, Aono M
EditorBandyopadhyay S, Okumura M
Conference Name2nd Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 2012)
Date Published12/2012
PublisherCOLING 2012 Organizing Committee
Conference LocationMumbai
Abstract

In this work, we propose a method for automatic analysis of attitude (affect, judgment, and appreciation) in sentiment words. The first stage of the proposed method is an automatic separation of unambiguous affective and judgmental adjectives from miscellaneous that express appreciation or different attitudes depending on context. In our experiments with machine learning algorithms we employed three feature sets based on Pointwise Mutual Information, word-pattern co-occurrence, and minimal path length. The next stage of the proposed method is to estimate the potentials of miscellaneous adjectives to convey affect, judgment, and appreciation. Based on the sentences automatically collected for each adjective, the algorithm analyses the context of phrases that contain sentiment word by considering morphological tags, high-level concepts, and named entities, and then makes decision about contextual attitude labels.
Finally, the appraisal potentials of a word are calculated based on the number of sentences related to each type of attitude.

URLhttp://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W12/W12-53.pdf#page=49