Discovering fine-grained sentiment with latent variable structured prediction models

  • Authors:
  • Oscar Täckström;Ryan McDonald

  • Affiliations:
  • Swedish Institute of Computer Science and Dept. of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University;Google, Inc.

  • Venue:
  • ECIR'11 Proceedings of the 33rd European conference on Advances in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the use of latent variable structured prediction models for fine-grained sentiment analysis in the common situation where only coarse-grained supervision is available. Specifically, we show how sentencelevel sentiment labels can be effectively learned from document-level supervision using hidden conditional random fields (HCRFs) [10]. Experiments show that this technique reduces sentence classification errors by 22% relative to using a lexicon and 13% relative to machine-learning baselines.