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Alistair Kennedy
Researcher at University of Ottawa
Publications - 20
Citations - 1159
Alistair Kennedy is an academic researcher from University of Ottawa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thesaurus & Semantic similarity. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 20 publications receiving 1102 citations. Previous affiliations of Alistair Kennedy include Dalhousie University.
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SENTIMENT CLASSIFICATION of MOVIE REVIEWS USING CONTEXTUAL VALENCE SHIFTERS
Alistair Kennedy,Diana Inkpen +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that extending the term‐counting method with contextual valence shifters improves the accuracy of the classification, and combining the two methods achieves better results than either method alone.
Sentiment Classification of Movie and Product Reviews Using Contextual Valence Shifters
Alistair Kennedy,Diana Inkpen +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that including contextual valence shifters improves the accuracy of the classification of sentiment expressed by a customer review, as well as taking both negations and intensifiers into account.
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Automatic Identification of Home Pages on the Web
Alistair Kennedy,M. Shepherd +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a neural network classifier was trained to distinguish home pages from non-home pages and to classify those home pages as personal home page, corporate home page or organization home page.
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Cybergenre: automatic identification of home pages on the web
TL;DR: Results indicate that the classifier was trained to distinguish home pages from non-home pages and within the home page genre it is able to distinguish personal from corporate home pages, however, organization home pages were more difficult to distinguish from personal and corporateHome pages.
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Evaluating Roget's Thesauri
Alistair Kennedy,Stan Szpakowicz +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the 1911 Roget's Thesaurus performs surprisingly well and that often the differences between the versions of Roget’s and WordNet are not statistically significant.