Social media has become a major source of information for many applications. Numerous techniques have been proposed to analyze network structures and text contents. In this paper,...
Weblogs and message boards provide online forums for discussion that record the voice of the public. Woven into this mass of discussion is a wide range of opinion and commentary a...
Natalie S. Glance, Matthew Hurst, Kamal Nigam, Mat...
The aim of this study is to develop a computational method of discourse analysis based on corpus semantics. The objective is to achieve an accurate understanding of the debate cont...
Hearing people argue opposing sides of an issue can be a useful way to understand the topic; however, these debates or conversations often don't exist. Unfortunately, generat...
Nathan D. Nichols, Lisa M. Gandy, Kristian J. Hamm...
Mining sentiment from user generated content is a very important task in Natural Language Processing. An example of such content is threaded discussions which act as a very import...