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This paper shows that a detailed, although non-emotional, description of event or an action can be a reliable source for learning opinions. Empirical results illustrate the practical utility of our approach and its competitiveness in comparison with previously used methods.
Parts of this research were supported by NSERC funds available to both authors.
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Sokolova, M., Lapalme, G. (2009). Opinion Learning without Emotional Words. In: Gao, Y., Japkowicz, N. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5549. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01818-3_36
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