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In recent work, Wiebe et al. (2003) propose a semantic representation for encoding the opinions and perspectives expressed at any given point in a text. This paper evaluates the opinion annotation scheme for multiperspective vs. fact-based question answering using a new question and answer corpus.
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Stoyanov, V., Cardie, C., Litman, D., Wiebe, J. (2006). Evaluating an Opinion Annotation Scheme Using a New Multi-Perspective Question and Answer Corpus. In: Shanahan, J.G., Qu, Y., Wiebe, J. (eds) Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and Applications. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4102-0_8
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