Aggregating Opinions: Explorations into Graphs and Media Content Analysis

Gabriele Tatzl, Christoph Waldhauser

Publication: Chapter in book/Conference proceedingContribution to conference proceedings

Abstract

Understanding, as opposed to reading is vital for the extraction of opinions out of a text. This is especially true, as an author's opinion is not always clearly marked. Finding the overall opinion in a text can be challenging to both human readers and computers alike. Media Content Analysis is a popular method of extracting information out of a text, by means of human coders. We describe the difficulties humans have and the process they use to extract opinions and offer a formalization that could help to automate opinion extraction within the Media Content Analysis framework.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of TextGraphs-5 - 2010 Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Editors Banea, Carmen, Moschitti, Alessandro, Somasundaran, Swapna, Zanzotto, Fabio Massimo
Place of PublicationUppsala, Sweden
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages93 - 97
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2010

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

  • 602011 Computational linguistics

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