Learning Text Patterns to Detect Opinion Targets

Filipa Peleja, João Magalhães

2015

Abstract

Exploiting sentiment relations to capture opinion targets has recently caught the interest of many researchers. In many cases target entities are themselves part of the sentiment lexicon creating a loop from which it is difficult to infer the overall sentiment to the target entities. In the present work we propose to detect opinion targets by extracting syntactic patterns from short-texts. Experiments show that our method was able to successfully extract 1,879 opinion targets from a total of 2,052 opinion targets. Furthermore, the proposed method obtains comparable results to SemEval 2015 opinion target models in which we observed the syntactic structure relation that exists between sentiment words and their target.

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Peleja F. and Magalhães J. (2015). Learning Text Patterns to Detect Opinion Targets . In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-158-8, pages 337-343. DOI: 10.5220/0005612603370343


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@conference{kdir15,
author={Filipa Peleja and João Magalhães},
title={Learning Text Patterns to Detect Opinion Targets},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={337-343},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005612603370343},
isbn={978-989-758-158-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2015)
TI - Learning Text Patterns to Detect Opinion Targets
SN - 978-989-758-158-8
AU - Peleja F.
AU - Magalhães J.
PY - 2015
SP - 337
EP - 343
DO - 10.5220/0005612603370343