Using rhetorical structure in sentiment analysis

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 69-77

  Hogenboom, Alexander ^a   Frasincar, Flavius ^b   De Jong, Franciska ^c   Kaymak, Uzay ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Information Systems Econometric Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

COMPOSITIONALITY; KEY SUCCESS FACTORS; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE; SEMANTIC ORIENTATION; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; TEXT SEGMENTS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84934783073     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2699418     Document Type: Article

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