The effect of negators, modals, and degree adverbs on sentiment composition

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, WASSA 2016 at the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 43-52

  Kiritchenko, Svetlana ^a   Mohammad, Saif M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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HANDCRAFTED RULES; MULTI-WORD; SIMPLE HEURISTICS; STATISTICAL LEARNING;

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