Unsupervised discovery of discourse relations for eliminating intra-sentence polarity ambiguities

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 162-171

  Zhou, Lanjun ^a,b   Li, Binyang ^a,b   Gao, Wei ^a,b   Wei, Zhongyu ^a,b   Wong, Kam Fai ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUE PHRASE; POLARITY CLASSIFICATION; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE THEORY; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053239308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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