An Opinion Analysis System Using Domain-Specific Lexical Knowledge

  • Youngho Kim
  • Yuchul Jung
  • Sung-Hyon Myaeng
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4993)

Abstract

In this paper, we describe an opinion analysis system using domain-specific lexical knowledge in Korean economic news. We tested our hypothesis that such domain-specific knowledge helps enhancing the performance of statistically based approaches and obtained a promising result.

Keywords

News Article Sentiment Analysis Opinion Extraction Lexical Knowledge Semantic Orientation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Youngho Kim
    • 1
  • Yuchul Jung
    • 1
  • Sung-Hyon Myaeng
    • 1
  1. 1.Information and Communications UniversityDaejeonSouth Korea

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