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The Web media monitoring methodology underlying this paper provides linguistic descriptives by automatically mirroring, processing and comparing large samples of Web-based corpora. Since May 1999, the database of the webLyzard project has continually been extended and now comprises more than 3,700 sites, which are being monitored in monthly intervals. The wealth of information contained in these sites is converted into aggregated representations through structural and textual analysis. Based on word frequencies and distance measures, perceptual maps and the semantic orientation of Web-based corpora towards particular concepts are computed.
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Scharl, A., Pollach, I., Bauer, C. (2003). Determining the Semantic Orientation of Web-Based Corpora. In: Liu, J., Cheung, Ym., Yin, H. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. IDEAL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2690. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45080-1_116
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