SemEval-2016 task 7: Determining sentiment intensity of English and Arabic phrases

SemEval 2016 - 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 42-51

  Kiritchenko, Svetlana ^a   Mohammad, Saif M ^a   Salameh, Mohammad ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

INTENSITY SCORES; MULTI-WORD; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SYSTEM OUTPUT; TEST SETS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85029376253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/s16-1004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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