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Opinion Summarization of Web Comments

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010)

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All kinds of Web sites invite visitors to provide feedback on comment boards. Typically, submitted comments are published immediately on the same page, so that new visitors can get an idea of the opinions of previous visitors. Popular multimedia items, such as videos and images, frequently get up to thousands of comments, which is too much to be read in reasonable time. I.e., visitors read, if at all, only the newest comments and hence get an incomplete and possibly misleading picture of the overall opinion. To address this issue we introduce OPINIONCLOUD, a technology to summarize and visualize opinions that are expressed in the form of Web comments.

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  1. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

    Martin Potthast & Steffen Becker

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  1. Martin Potthast
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Adaptive Information Cluster, Dublin City University, Dublin, 9, Ireland

    Cathal Gurrin

  2. The Open University, Walton Hall, MK7 6HF, Milton Keynes, UK

    Yulan He

  3. Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0FB, Cambridge, UK

    Gabriella Kazai

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ, Colchester, UK

    Udo Kruschwitz

  5. The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK

    Suzanne Little

  6. University of London, London, UK

    Thomas Roelleke

  7. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK

    Stefan Rüger

  8. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 17 Lilybank Gardens, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK

    Keith van Rijsbergen

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Potthast, M., Becker, S. (2010). Opinion Summarization of Web Comments. In: Gurrin, C., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5993. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_73

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