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Word Polarity Disambiguation Using Bayesian Model and Opinion-Level Features

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Contextual polarity ambiguity is an important problem in sentiment analysis. Many opinion keywords carry varying polarities in different contexts, posing huge challenges for sentiment analysis research. Previous work on contextual polarity disambiguation makes use of term-level context, such as words and patterns, and resolves the polarity with a range of rule-based, statistics-based or machine learning methods. The major shortcoming of these methods lies in that the term-level features sometimes are ineffective in resolving the polarity. In this work, opinion-level context is explored, in which intra-opinion features and inter-opinion features are finely defined. To enable effective use of opinion-level features, the Bayesian model is adopted to resolve the polarity in a probabilistic manner. Experiments with the Opinmine corpus demonstrate that opinion-level features can make a significant contribution in word polarity disambiguation in four domains.

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This paper is supported by NSFC (61272233) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. We are grateful to the reviewers for their invaluable comments.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, TNList, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Yunqing Xia & Huan Zhao

  2. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

    Erik Cambria

  3. Division of Computing Science and Maths, School of Natural Science, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK

    Amir Hussain

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Xia, Y., Cambria, E., Hussain, A. et al. Word Polarity Disambiguation Using Bayesian Model and Opinion-Level Features. Cogn Comput 7, 369–380 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-014-9298-4

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