Reflections on Sentiment/Opinion Analysis
Reflections on Sentiment/Opinion Analysis
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-55394-8_3
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发表时间:
2017-01-01
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通讯作者:
Hovy, Eduard
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作者:
Li, Jiwei;Hovy, Eduard
The detection of expressions of sentiment in online text has become a popular Natural Language Processing application. The task is commonly defined as identifying the words or phrases in a given fragment of text in which the reader understands that the author expresses some person's positive, negative, or perhaps neutral attitude toward a topic. These four elements-expression words, attitude holder, topic, and attitude value-have evolved with hardly any discussion in the literature about their foundation or nature. Specifically, the use of two (or three) attitude values is far more simplistic than many examples of real language show. In this paper we ask: where do sentiments come from? We focus on two basic sources of human attitude-the holder's non-logical/emotional preferences and the fulfillment of the holder's goals. After exploring each source we provide a notional algorithm sketch and examples of how sentiment systems could provide richer and more realistic accounts of sentiment in text.