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Personal Sense and Idiolect: Combining Authorship Attribution and Opinion Analysis

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Personal Sense and Idiolect: Combining Authorship Attribution and Opinion Analysis
Subjectivity analysis and authorship attribution are very popular areas of research. However, work in these two areas has been done separately. Our conjecture is that by combining information about subjectivity in texts and authorship, the performance of both tasks can be improved. In the paper a personalized approach to opinion mining is presented, in which the notions of personal sense and idiolect are introduced; the approach is applied to the polarity classification task. It is assumed that different authors express their private states in text individually, and opinion mining results could be improved by analyzing texts by different authors separately. The hypothesis is tested on a corpus of movie reviews by ten authors. The results of applying the personalized approach to opinion mining are presented, confirming that the approach increases the performance of the opinion mining task. Automatic authorship attribution is further applied to model the personalized approach, classifyi...
Polina Panicheva, John Cardiff, Paolo Rosso
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Type Conference
Year 2010
Where LREC
Authors Polina Panicheva, John Cardiff, Paolo Rosso
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