Enhancing opinion extraction by automatically annotated lexical resources

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Esuli;Fabrizio Sebastiani

  • Affiliations:
  • Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy;Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • LTC'09 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Human language technology: challenges for computer science and linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we tackle an opinion extraction (OE) task, i.e., identifying in a text each expression of subjectivity, the subject expressing it, and its possible target.We especially focus on how lexical resources specifically developed for opinion mining could be used to improve the performance of an opinion extraction system. We report results, complete with statistical significance tests and inter-annotator agreement data, on two manually annotated corpora, one of English and one of Italian texts. We evaluate our results using standard evaluation measures and also using a new evaluation measure we have recently proposed.