Predicting subjectivity in multimodal conversations

  • Authors:
  • Gabriel Murray;Giuseppe Carenini

  • Affiliations:
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 3 - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this research we aim to detect subjective sentences in multimodal conversations. We introduce a novel technique wherein subjective patterns are learned from both labeled and unlabeled data, using n-gram word sequences with varying levels of lexical instantiation. Applying this technique to meeting speech and email conversations, we gain significant improvement over state-of-the-art approaches. Furthermore, we show that coupling the pattern-based approach with features that capture characteristics of general conversation structure yields additional improvement.