Analyzing the polarity of opinionated queries

  • Authors:
  • Sergiu Chelaru;Ismail Sengor Altingovde;Stefan Siersdorfer

  • Affiliations:
  • L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany;L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany;L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ECIR'12 Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we present an in-depth analysis of Web search queries for controversial topics, focusing on query sentiment. To this end, we conduct extensive user assessments as well as an automatic sentiment analysis using the SentiWordNet thesaurus.