Identifying Collocations for Recognizing Opinions
Published 1 January 2001
Jens Wiebe
Citations135
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Promising results are shown for a straightforward method of identifying collocational clues of subjectivity, as well as evidence of the usefulness of these clues for recognizing opinionated documents.
Abstract
Subjectivity in natural language refers to aspects of language used to express opinions and evaluations (Banfield, 1982
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