Sentiment classification techniques for tracking literary reputation
Published 1 January 2006
Maite Taboada, Mary Ann Gillies, Paul McFetridge
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An initial report on the use of the semantic orientation of adjectives and their rough position in the text to calculate the overall orientation of the text is provided and ways in which this calculation can be improved are suggested.
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The initial stages of a project tracking the literary reputation of authors are described. The critical reviews of six authors who either rose to fame or fell to obscurity between 1900 and 1950 will be examined and we hope to demonstrate the contribution of each text to the evolving reputations of the authors. We provide an initial report on the use of the semantic orientation of adjectives and their rough position in the text to calculate the overall orientation of the text and suggest ways in which this calculation can be improved. Improvements include further development of adjective lists, expansion of these lists and the consequent algorithms for calculating orientation to include other parts of speech, and the use of Rhetorical Structure Theory to differentiate units that make a direct contribution to the intended orientation from those that are contrastive or otherwise make an indirect contribution.
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