Evaluating an Opinion Annotation Scheme Using a New Multi-Perspective Question and Answer Corpus
The information retrieval seriesPublished 17 January 2006
Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie, Diane Litman, Janyce Wiebe
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This paper evaluates the opinion annotation scheme for multiperspective vs. fact-based question answering using a new question and answer corpus.
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In recent work, Wiebe et al. (2003) propose a semantic representation for encoding the opinions and perspectives expressed at any given point in a text. This paper evaluates the opinion annotation scheme for multiperspective vs. fact-based question answering using a new question and answer corpus.
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