Thread specific features are helpful for identifying subjectivity orientation of online forum threads

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 295-310

  Biyani, Prakhar ^a   Bhatia, Sumit ^a   Caragea, Cornelia ^b   Mitra, Prasenjit ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Advanced Research and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialogue act; Online forums; Subjecitivity

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; BINARY CLASSIFICATION; CUSTOMER REVIEW; DIALOGUE ACTS; MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION; ONLINE FORUMS; QUESTION ANSWERING; SUBJECITIVITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84875498381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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