Weakly supervised techniques for domain-independent sentiment classification

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 45-52

  Read, Jonathon ^a   Carroll, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributional similarity; Lexical association; Semantic spaces; Sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

POLARITY CLASSIFICATION; SEMANTIC SPACE; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING; TESTING DATA; TRAINING AND TESTING; TRAINING DATA; WORD SIMILARITY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 74049086701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1651461.1651470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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