Abstract
With the development of the network, the research of user reviews has become more important in academia and industry, because user reviews gradually influence the reputation of products and services. Argument mining has recently become a hot topic, and it is currently in the center of attention of the text mining research community. We can deeply dig out information contained in the user reviews with argument mining technology. This paper makes a corpus of hotel reviews and presents a novel scheme to model arguments, their components and relations in hotel reviews in English. In order to capture the structure of argumentative discourse, the annotation scheme includes the annotation of Major Claim, Claim, Premise, Background and Recommendation as well as Support and Attack relations. The sentiment polarity of argument components contains Positive, Negative and Neutral. We conduct a manual annotation study with 300 annotators on 1427 hotel reviews. And the final corpus collects 85 hotel reviews according to inter-rater agreement and it will encourage future study in argument recognition.
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The work is supported by both National scientific and Technological Innovation Zero (No. 17-H863-01-ZT-005-005-01) and State’s Key Project of Research and Development Plan (No. 2016QY03D0505).
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Duan, X., Liao, M., Zhao, X., Wu, W., Lv, P. (2019). A Hotel Review Corpus for Argument Mining. In: Sun, F., Liu, H., Hu, D. (eds) Cognitive Systems and Signal Processing. ICCSIP 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1005. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7983-3_29
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