Towards an analysis of opinions in news editorials: how positive was the year?

  • Authors:
  • Bal Krishna Bal

  • Affiliations:
  • Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Lalitpur, PatanDhoka, Nepal and IRIT, Toulouse, France

  • Venue:
  • IWCS-8 '09 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Editorials represent opinion articles written by the publisher, editors or columnists of newspapers. From this perspective, editorials are ideal sources for outlining views on events and analyzing how they are perceived, e.g. whether they are positive or negative or the kind of feelings or analysis they involve (uncertainty, worries, etc.). The proposed work aims at identifying the linguistic criteria and at creating a model for the aforementioned purpose, which makes use of an adequate set of semantic tags that we have defined to annotate texts from which a detailed analysis can be carried out.