Abstract
Subjectivity tagging is distinguishing sentences used to present opinions and evaluations from sentences used to objectively present factual information. There are numerous applications for which subjectivity tagging is relevant, including information extraction and information retrieval. This paper identifies strong clues of subjectivity using the results of a method for clustering words according to distributional similarity (Lin 1998), seeded by a small amount of detailed manual annotation. These features are then further refined with the addition of lexical semantic features of adjectives, specifically polarity and gradability (Hatzivassiloglou & McKeown 1997), which can be automatically learned from corpora. In 10-fold cross validation experiments, features based on both similarity clusters and the lexical semantic features are shown to have higher precision than features based on each alone.
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Computer scienceNatural language processingArtificial intelligenceSubjectivitySimilarity (geometry)AnnotationInformation retrievalCluster analysisSemantic similarityPolarity (international relations)
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Janyce Wiebe
(2000).
Learning Subjective Adjectives from Corpora.
, 735-740.