Sentiment analysis of online news text: A case study of appraisal theory

Online Information Review

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 858-878

  Khoo, Christopher Soo Guan ^a   Nourbakhsh, Armineh ^b   Na, Jin Cheon ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Appraisal theory; Content analysis; Linguistics; Political news; Sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

APPRAISAL THEORY; AUTOMATED METHODS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ECONOMIC POLICIES; EMOTION PROCESSING; NEGATIVE SENTIMENTS; ONLINE NEWS; POLITICAL NEWS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

LINGUISTICS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84870272153     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521211287936     Document Type: Review

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