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Recent work in sentiment analysis has begun to apply fine-grained semantic distinctions between expressions of attitude as features for textual analysis. Such methods, however, require the construction of large and complex lexicons, giving values for multiple sentiment-related attributes to many different lexical items. For example, a key attribute is what type of attitude is expressed by a lexical item; e.g., beautiful expresses appreciation of an object’s quality, while evil expresses a negative judgment of social behavior. In this chapter we describe a method for the automatic determination of complex sentiment-related attributes such as attitude type and force, by applying supervised learning to WordNet glosses. Experimental results show that the method achieves good effectiveness, and is therefore well-suited to contexts in which these lexicons need to be generated from scratch.
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Argamon, S., Bloom, K., Esuli, A., Sebastiani, F. (2009). Automatically Determining Attitude Type and Force for Sentiment Analysis. In: Vetulani, Z., Uszkoreit, H. (eds) Human Language Technology. Challenges of the Information Society. LTC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5603. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04235-5_19
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