Liars and saviors in a sentiment annotated corpus of comments to political debates

Authors:
Paula Carvalho;Luís Sarmento;Jorge Teixeira;Mário J. Silva
Affiliations:
University of Lisbon, LASIGE, Lisbon, Portugal;Labs Sapo UP & University of Porto, LIACC, Porto, Portugal;Labs Sapo UP & University of Porto, LIACC, Porto, Portugal;University of Lisbon, LASIGE, Lisbon, Portugal
Venue:
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: short papers - Volume 2
Year:
2011

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Abstract

We investigate the expression of opinions about human entities in user-generated content (UGC). A set of 2,800 online news comments (8,000 sentences) was manually annotated, following a rich annotation scheme designed for this purpose. We conclude that the challenge in performing opinion mining in such type of content is correctly identifying the positive opinions, because (i) they are much less frequent than negative opinions and (ii) they are particularly exposed to verbal irony. We also show that the recognition of human targets poses additional challenges on mining opinions from UGC, since they are frequently mentioned by pronouns, definite descriptions and nicknames.