Learning extraction patterns for subjective expressions
Published 1 January 2003Open access
Ellen Riloff, Janyce Wiebe
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A bootstrapping process that learns linguistically rich extraction patterns for subjective (opinionated) expressions while maintaining high precision is presented.
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This paper presents a bootstrapping process that learns linguistically rich extraction patterns for subjective (opinionated) expressions.
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