Collecting Evaluative Expressions for Opinion Extraction

Automatic extraction of human opinions from Web documents has been receiving increasing interest. To automate the process of opinion extraction, having a collection of evaluative expressions such as ”the seats are comfortable” would be useful. However, it can be costly to manually create an exhaustive list of such expressions for many domains, because they tend to be domain-dependent. Motivated by this, we have been exploring ways to accelerate the process of collecting evaluative expressions by applying a text mining technique. This paper proposes a semi-automatic method that uses particular cooccurrence patterns of evaluated subjects, focused attributes and value expressions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IJCNLP
• Authors: Nozomi Kobayashi, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto, Kenji Tateishi, Toshikazu Fukushima
• Keywords: Automatic Extraction, Evaluative Expressions, IJCNLP 2004, Opinion Extraction