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Determining the semantic orientation of terms through gloss classification

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This paper presents a new method for determining the orientation of subjective terms based on the quantitative analysis of the glosses of such terms given in on-line dictionaries, and on the use of the resulting term representations for semi-supervised term classification.
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Sentiment classification is a recent subdiscipline of text classification which is concerned not with the topic a document is about, but with the opinion it expresses. It has a rich set of applications, ranging from tracking users' opinions about products or about political candidates as expressed in online forums, to customer relationship management. Functional to the extraction of opinions from text is the determination of the orientation of ``subjective'' terms contained in text, i.e. the determination of whether a term that carries opinionated content has a positive or a negative connotation. In this paper we present a new method for determining the orientation of subjective terms. The method is based on the quantitative analysis of the glosses of such terms, i.e. the definitions that these terms are given in on-line dictionaries, and on the use of the resulting term representations for semi-supervised term classification. The method we present outperforms all known methods when tested on the recognized standard benchmarks for this task.

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Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

TL;DR: This survey covers techniques and approaches that promise to directly enable opinion-oriented information-seeking systems and focuses on methods that seek to address the new challenges raised by sentiment-aware applications, as compared to those that are already present in more traditional fact-based analysis.
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Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

TL;DR: Sentiment analysis and opinion mining is the field of study that analyzes people's opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions from written language as discussed by the authors and is one of the most active research areas in natural language processing and is also widely studied in data mining, Web mining, and text mining.
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VADER: A Parsimonious Rule-based Model for Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Text

TL;DR: Interestingly, using the authors' parsimonious rule-based model to assess the sentiment of tweets, it is found that VADER outperforms individual human raters, and generalizes more favorably across contexts than any of their benchmarks.
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A Survey of Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

TL;DR: Sentiment analysis or opinion mining is the computational study of people’s opinions, appraisals, attitudes, and emotions toward entities, individuals, issues, events, topics and their attributes.
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Opinion word expansion and target extraction through double propagation

TL;DR: This article study two important problems, namely, opinion lexicon expansion and opinion target extraction, and proposes a method based on bootstrapping that outperforms these existing methods significantly.
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Thumbs up? Sentiment Classiflcation using Machine Learning Techniques

TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of classifying documents not by topic, but by overall sentiment, e.g., determining whether a review is positive or negative, was considered and three machine learning methods (Naive Bayes, maximum entropy classiflcation, and support vector machines) were employed.
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Thumbs up? Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques

TL;DR: This work considers the problem of classifying documents not by topic, but by overall sentiment, e.g., determining whether a review is positive or negative, and concludes by examining factors that make the sentiment classification problem more challenging.
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Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Semantic Orientation Applied to Unsupervised Classification of Reviews

TL;DR: A simple unsupervised learning algorithm for classifying reviews as recommended (thumbs up) or not recommended (Thumbs down) if the average semantic orientation of its phrases is positive.
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Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Semantic Orientation Applied to Unsupervised Classification of Reviews

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TL;DR: This article proposed an unsupervised learning algorithm for classifying reviews as recommended (thumbs up) or not recommended(thumbs down) based on the average semantic orientation of phrases in the review that contain adjectives or adverbs.
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A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts

TL;DR: This paper proposed a machine learning method that applies text-categorization techniques to just the subjective portions of the document, extracting these portions can be implemented using efficient techniques for finding minimum cuts in graphs; this greatly facilitates incorporation of cross-sentence contextual constraints.