Improving Opinion Retrieval Based on Query-Specific Sentiment Lexicon

  • Authors:
  • Seung-Hoon Na;Yeha Lee;Sang-Hyob Nam;Jong-Hyeok Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Singapore,;POSTECH, South Korea;POSTECH, South Korea;POSTECH, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • ECIR '09 Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Lexicon-based approaches have been widely used for opinion retrieval due to their simplicity. However, no previous work has focused on the domain-dependency problem in opinion lexicon construction. This paper proposes simple feedback-style learning for query-specific opinion lexicon using the set of top-retrieved documents in response to a query. The proposed learning starts from the initial domain-independent general lexicon and creates a query-specific lexicon by re-updating the opinion probability of the initial lexicon based on top-retrieved documents. Experimental results on recent TREC test sets show that the query-specific lexicon provides a significant improvement over previous approaches, especially in BLOG-06 topics.