CLaC and CLaC-NB: knowledge-based and corpus-based approaches to sentiment tagging

  • Authors:
  • Alina Andreevskaia;Sabine Bergler

  • Affiliations:
  • Concordia University, Montreal, Canada;Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

  • Venue:
  • SemEval '07 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

For the Affective Text task at Semeval-1/Senseval-4, the CLaC team compared a knowledge-based, domain-independent approach and a standard, statistical machine learning approach to ternary sentiment annotation of news headlines. In this paper we describe the two systems submitted to the competition and evaluate their results. We show that the knowledge-based unsupervised method achieves high accuracy and precision but low recall, while supervised statistical approach trained on small amount of in-domain data provides relatively high recall at the cost of low precision.