Generalizing dependency features for opinion mining

  • Authors:
  • Mahesh Joshi;Carolyn Penstein-Rosé

  • Affiliations:
  • Language Technologies Institute;Language Technologies Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • ACLShort '09 Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We explore how features based on syntactic dependency relations can be utilized to improve performance on opinion mining. Using a transformation of dependency relation triples, we convert them into "composite back-off features" that generalize better than the regular lexicalized dependency relation features. Experiments comparing our approach with several other approaches that generalize dependency features or ngrams demonstrate the utility of composite back-off features.