Computing Attitude and Affect in Text Theory and Applications

Name: Computing Attitude and Affect in Text Theory and Applications
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ISBN: 9781402040269

ISBN-10: 1402040261

ISBN-13: 9781402040269

Edition: 2006

Authors: James G. Shanahan, Yan Qu, Janyce Wiebe

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Human Language Technology (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems have typically focused on the "factual" aspect of content analysis. Other aspects, including pragmatics, opinion, and style, have received much less attention. However, to achieve an adequate understanding of a text, these aspects cannot be ignored. The chapters in this book address attitude, affect, and subjective opinion. Various conceptual models and computational methods are presented, including distinguishing attitudes from simple factual assertions; distinguishing between the authors reports from reports of other peoples opinions; and distinguishing between explicitly and implicitly stated attitudes. In…

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List price: $169.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 11/22/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 341
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.300
Language: English




Contextual valence shifters




Conveying attitude with reported speech




Where attitudinal expressions get their attitude




Analysis of linguistic features associated with point of view for generating stylistically appropriate text




The subjectivity of lexical cohesion in text




A weighted referential activity dictionary




Certainty identification in texts : categorization model and manual tagging results




Evaluating an opinion annotation scheme using a new multi-perspective question and answer corpus




Validating the coverage of lexical resources for affect analysis and automatically classifying new words along semantic axes




A computational semantic lexicon of French verbs of emotion




Extracting opinion propositions and opinion holders using syntactic and lexical cues




Approaches for automatically tagging affect




Argumentative zoning for improved citation indexing




Politeness and bias in dialogue summarization : two exploratory studies




Generating more-positive and more-negative text




Identifying interpersonal distance using systemic features




Corpus-based study of scientific methodology : comparing the historical and experimental sciences




Argumentative zoning applied to critiquing novices' scientific abstracts




Using hedges to classify citations in scientific articles




Towards a robust metric of polarity




Characterizing buzz and sentiment in Internet sources : linguistic summaries and predictive behaviors




Good news or bad news? : let the market decide




Opinion polarity identification of movie reviews




Multi-document viewpoint summarization focused on facts, opinion and knowledge