Using non-lexical features for identifying factual and opinionative threads in online forums

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 170-178

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

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of North Texas   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Dialog act; Online forums; Subjectivity analysis; Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; BINARY CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY QUESTION ANSWERING; DIALOG ACT; FACTUAL INFORMATION; MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION; ONLINE FORUMS; SUBJECTIVITY ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84924584180     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2014.04.048     Document Type: Article

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