A large-scale sentiment analysis for Yahoo! Answers

WSDM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 633-642

  Kucuktunc, Onur ^a   Cambazoglu, B Barla ^b   Weber, Ingmar ^b   Ferhatosmanoglu, Hakan ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attitude; Collaborative question answering; Prediction; Sentiment analysis; Sentimentality

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING; RESEARCH TOPICS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SENTIMENTALITY; WEB DOCUMENT; ZIP CODE;

FORECASTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84858019607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2124295.2124371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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