An empirical study of sentence features for subjectivity and polarity classification

Information Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue , 2014, Pages 275-288

  Chenlo, Jose M ^a   Losada, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Opinion Mining; Polarity classification; Sentence level analysis; Sentiment Analysis; Subjectivity classification

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

OPINION MINING; POLARITY CLASSIFICATION; SENTENCE-LEVEL ANALYSIS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SUBJECTIVITY CLASSIFICATIONS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84902513871     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.05.009     Document Type: Article

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