Bootstrapping polarity classifiers with rule-based classification

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1049-1088

  Wiegand, Michael ^a   Klenner, Manfred ^b   Klakow, Dietrich ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping methods; Feature engineering; Polarity classification; Sentiment analysis; Text classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890570813     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-013-9218-3     Document Type: Article

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