Towards a unified framework for opinion retrieval, mining and summarization

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 711-747

  Lloret, Elena ^a   Balahur, Alexandra ^a   Gómez, José M ^a   Montoyo, Andrés ^a   Palomar, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Intelligent system; Mining and summarization framework; Opinion mining; Opinion retrieval; Text summarization

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TEXT PROCESSING; EXPONENTIAL INCREASE; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; OPINION MINING; OPINION RETRIEVAL; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; SUBJECTIVE INFORMATION; TEXT SUMMARIZATION; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84869497904     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: 15737675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10844-012-0209-4     Document Type: Article

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