Propagating and Aggregating Fuzzy Polarities for Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
Cognitive ComputationPublished 14 October 2014Open access
Mauro Dragoni, Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi, Célia da Costa Pereira
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The use of fuzzy logic for modeling concept polarities, and the uncertainty associated with them, with respect to different domains is explored, based on the use of a knowledge graph built by combining two linguistic resources, namely WordNet and SenticNet.
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