Sentiment analysis: Adjectives and adverbs are better than adjectives alone

ICWSM 2007 - International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Benamara, Farah ^a   Cesarano, Carmine ^b   Picariello, Antonio ^b   Reforgiato, Diego ^c   Subrahmanian, V S ^c  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverb adjective combinations; Adverbs of degree; Sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

ADVERB-ADJECTIVE COMBINATIONS; ADVERBS OF DEGREE; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; LINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATION; PEARSON CORRELATION; SCORING FUNCTIONS; SCORING TECHNIQUES; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA MINING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893402986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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