Automatic generation of short informative sentiment summaries

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Glaser;Hinrich Schütze

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Stuttgart, Germany;University of Stuttgart, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we define a new type of summary for sentiment analysis: a single-sentence summary that consists of a supporting sentence that conveys the overall sentiment of a review as well as a convincing reason for this sentiment. We present a system for extracting supporting sentences from online product reviews, based on a simple and unsupervised method. We design a novel comparative evaluation method for summarization, using a crowdsourcing service. The evaluation shows that our sentence extraction method performs better than a baseline of taking the sentence with the strongest sentiment.