Learning MultiLinguistic Knowledge for Opinion Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Ruifeng Xu;Kam-Fai Wong;Qin Lu;Yunqing Xia

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong,;Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,;Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong,;Institute of Computing Science and Engineering, Tsinghua Universtiy, China

  • Venue:
  • ICIC '08 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent Computing: Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications - with Aspects of Theoretical and Methodological Issues
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Most existing opinion analysis techniques used word-level sentiment knowledge but lack the learning capacity on the behaviors of context-dependent opinion words. Meanwhile, the use of collocation-level sentiment knowledge is not well studied. This paper presents an opinion analysis system, namely OA, which incorporates the word-level and collocation-level sentiment knowledge. Based on the observation on the NTCIR-6 opinion training corpus, some word-level and collocation-level linguistic clues for opinion analysis are discovered. Learning techniques are developed to learn the features corresponding to these discovered clues. These features are in turn incorporated into a classifier based on support vector machine to identify opinionated sentences and determine their polarities from running text. Evaluations on NTCIR-6 opinion testing dataset show that OAachieved promising overall performance.