Genre-based paragraph classification for sentiment analysis
Published 1 January 2009Open access
Maite Taboada, Julian Brooke, Manfred Stede
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A taxonomy and classification system for distinguishing between different types of paragraphs in movie reviews: formal vs. functional paragraphs and, within the latter, between description and comment is presented.
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We present a taxonomy and classification system for distinguishing between different types of paragraphs in movie reviews: formal vs. functional paragraphs and, within the latter, between description and comment. The classification is used for sentiment extraction, achieving improvement over a baseline without paragraph classification.
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