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In this paper we present an approach to extract sentiments associated with a phrase or sentence. Sentiment analysis has been attempted mostly for documents typically a review or a news item. Conjunctions have a substantial impact on the overall sentiment of a sentence, so here we present how atomic sentiments of individual phrases combine together in the presence of conjuncts to decide the overall sentiment of a sentence. We used word dependencies and dependency trees to analyze the sentence constructs and were able to get results close to 80%. We have also analyzed the effect of WordNet on the accuracy of the results over General Inquirer.
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Meena, A., Prabhakar, T.V. (2007). Sentence Level Sentiment Analysis in the Presence of Conjuncts Using Linguistic Analysis. In: Amati, G., Carpineto, C., Romano, G. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4425. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_53
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