Filling the gap: semi-supervised learning for opinion detection across domains

  • Authors:
  • Ning Yu;Sandra Kübler

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana University;Indiana University

  • Venue:
  • CoNLL '11 Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We investigate the use of Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) in opinion detection both in sparse data situations and for domain adaptation. We show that co-training reaches the best results in an in-domain setting with small labeled data sets, with a maximum absolute gain of 33.5%. For domain transfer, we show that self-training gains an absolute improvement in labeling accuracy for blog data of 16% over the supervised approach with target domain training data.