Abstract
The explosion of user-generated content, especially tweets, customer reviews, makes it possible to build sentiment lexicons automatically by harnessing the consistency between the content and its accompanying emotional signal, either explicitly or implicitly. In this work we describe novel techniques for automatically producing domain specific sentiment lexicons that are optimised for the language patterns and idioms of a given domain. We describe how we use review ratings as sentiment signals. We also describe an approach to recognising contextual variations in sentiment and show how these variations can be exploited in practice. We evaluate these ideas in a number of different product domains.
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This work is supported by Science Foundation Ireland under Grant Number SFI/12/RC/2289.
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Lu, Y., Dong, R., Smyth, B. (2016). Context-Aware Sentiment Detection from Ratings. In: Bramer, M., Petridis, M. (eds) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXXIII. SGAI 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47175-4_6
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