Sentiment-based ranking of blog posts using rhetorical structure theory

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7934 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 13-24

  Chenlo, Jose M ^a   Hogenboom, Alexander ^b   Losada, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blog; Discourse Structure; Opinion Mining; Polarity Estimation; Rhetorical Structure Theory; Sentiment Analysis

Indexed keywords

BLOG; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; OPINION MINING; POLARITY ESTIMATION; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE THEORY; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

DATA MINING; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

BLOGS;

EID: 84884933367     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38824-8_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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