Sentiment classification of Internet restaurant reviews written in Cantonese

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 7674-7682

  Zhang, Ziqiong ^a   Ye, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Zili ^a   Li, Yijun ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Machine learning; Online review; Restaurant; Sentiment classification

Indexed keywords

CANTONESE; MACHINE LEARNING; ONLINE REVIEW; RESTAURANT; SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING SYSTEMS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 79951576641     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.12.147     Document Type: Article

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