Automatic construction of an opinion-term vocabulary for ad hoc retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Giambattista Amati;Edgardo Ambrosi;Marco Bianchi;Carlo Gaibisso;Giorgio Gambosi

  • Affiliations:
  • Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy;IASI "Antonio Ruberti", CNR, Rome, Italy;IASI "Antonio Ruberti", CNR, Rome, Italy;IASI "Antonio Ruberti", CNR, Rome, Italy;University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a method to automatically generate a term-opinion lexicon. We also weight these lexicon terms and use them at real time to boost the ranking with opinionated-content documents. We define very simple models both for opinion-term extraction and document ranking. Both the lexicon model and retrieval model are assessed. To evaluate the quality of the lexicon we compare performance with a well-established manually generated opinion-term dictionary. We evaluate the effectiveness of the term-opinion lexicon using the opinion task evaluation data of the TREC 2007 blog track.