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A Knowledge-Based Approach for Aspect-Based Opinion Mining

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Abstract

In the last decade, the focus of the Opinion Mining field moved to detection of the pairs “aspect-polarity” instead of limiting approaches in the computation of the general polarity of a text. In this work, we propose an aspect-based opinion mining system based on the use of semantic resources for the extraction of the aspects from a text and for the computation of their polarities. The proposed system participated at the third edition of the Semantic Sentiment Analysis (SSA) challenge took place during ESWC 2016 achieving the runner-up place in the Task #2 concerning the aspect-based sentiment analysis. Moreover, a further evaluation performed on the SemEval 2015 benchmarks demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed approach.

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    http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2015/cdrom/pdf/SemEval082.pdf.

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    https://wordnet.princeton.edu/.

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    The used stopwords list is available at http://www.lextek.com/manuals/onix/stopwords1.html.

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    http://www.alt.qcri.org/semeval2015/task12/.

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    Marco Federici

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Federici, M., Dragoni, M. (2016). A Knowledge-Based Approach for Aspect-Based Opinion Mining. In: Sack, H., Dietze, S., Tordai, A., Lange, C. (eds) Semantic Web Challenges. SemWebEval 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 641. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46565-4_11

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