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Using verbs and adjectives to automatically classify blog sentiment

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Abstract

This paper presents experiments on subjectivity and polarity classifications of topic- and genre-independent blog posts, making novel use of a linguistic feature, verb class information, and of an online resource, the Wikipedia dictionary, for determining the polarity of adjectives. Each post from a blog is classified as objective, positive, or negative. Our method of determining the polarity of adjectives has an accuracy rate of 90.9%. Accuracy rates of two verb classes demonstrating polarity are 89.3% and 91.2%. Initial classifier results show blog-post accuracies with significant increases above the established baseline classification.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs - Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report
Pages27-29
Number of pages3
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 AAAI Spring Symposium - Stanford, CA, United States
Duration: Mar 27 2006Mar 29 2006

Publication series

NameAAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
VolumeSS-06-03

Conference

Conference2006 AAAI Spring Symposium
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityStanford, CA
Period03/27/0603/29/06

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