Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications
Papers from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium
Yan Qu, James Shanahan, and Janyce Wiebe, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-04-07. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Schedule / v
Yan Qu, James Shanahan, and Janyce Wiebe
Conjunction and Modal Assessment in Genre Classification: A Corpus-Based Study of Historical and Experimental Science Writing / 1
Shlomo Argamon and Jeff Dodick
Discovering Subjectivity Using Multi-Document Summaries / 9
Michele Banko and Lucy Vanderwende
Exploring Sentiment Summarization / 12
Philip Beineke, Trevor Hastie, Christopher Manning, and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan
Attributions / 16
Sabine Bergler, Monia Doandes, Christine Gerard, and René Witte
Automatic Extraction of Opinion Propositions and their Holders / 20
Steven Bethard, Hong Yu, Ashley Thornton, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, and Dan Jurafsky
Building a Weighted Dictionary for Referential Activity / 28
Wilma Bucci and Bernard Maskit
Approaches for Automatically Tagging Affect / 36
Nathanael Chambers, Joel Tetreault, and James Allen
A Two Dimensional Annotation Scheme for Emotion in Dialogue / 44
Richard Craggs and Mary McGee Wood
Hedging in Scientific Articles as a Means of Classifying Citations / 50
Chrysanne Di Marco and Robert E. Mercer
Automatic Critiquing of Novices’ Scientific Writing Using Argumentative Zoning / 55
Valéria D. Feltrim and Simone Teufel
Analysis of Linguistic Features Associated with Point of View for Generating Stylistically Appropriate Text / 59
Nancy L. Green
Validating the Coverage of Lexical Resources for Affect Analysis and Automatically Classifying New Words along Semantic Axes / 63
Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, David A. Evans, and James G. Shanahan
Identifying Interpersonal Distance using Systemic Features / 71
Maria Herke-Couchman, Casey Whitelaw, and Jon Patrick
Generating More-Positive and More-Negative Text / 75
Diana Zaiu Inkpen, Ol'ga Feiguina, and Graeme Hirst
Reading between the Lines: Attitudinal Expression in Text / 82
Jussi Karlgren, Gunnar Eriksson, Kristofer Franzén, Preben Hansen, Stegano Mizzaro, Paul Clough, and Mark Sanderson
Good News or Bad News? Let the Market Decide / 86
Moshe Koppel and Itai Shtrimberg
A Semantic Lexicon for Emotions and Feelings / 89
Yvette Yannick Mathieu
The Subjectivity of Lexical Cohesion in Text / 94
Jane Morris and Graeme Hirst
Towards a Robust Metric of Opinion / 98
Kamal Nigam and Matthew Hurst
Contextual Lexical Valence Shifters / 106
Livia Polanyi and Annie Zaenen
Politeness and Summarization: An Exploratory Study / 112
Norton Trevisan Roman, Paul Piwek, and Ariadne Maria Brito Rizzoni Carvalho
Certainty Categorization Model / 118
Victoria L. Rubin, Noriko Kando, and Elizabeth D. Liddy
Discerning Emotions in Texts / 124
Victoria L. Rubin, Jeffrey M. Stanton, and Elizabeth D. Liddy
Impact of Lexical Filtering on Overall Opinion Polarity Identification / 128
Franco Salvetti, Stephen Lewis, and Christoph Reichenbach
An Affect-Based Text Mining System for Qualitative Analysis of Japanese Free Text / 134
Makoto Sano
Analysis of Multi-Document Viewpoint Summarization Using Multi-Dimensional Genres / 142
Yohei Seki, Koji Eguchi, and Noriko Kando
Mining Multilingual Opinions through Classification and Translation / 146
James G. Shanahan, Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, and David A. Evans
Evaluating an Opinion Annotation Scheme Using a New Multi-Perspective Question and Answer Corpus / 150
Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie, Diane Litman, and Janyce Wiebe
Analyzing Appraisal Automatically / 158
Maite Taboada and Jack Grieve
Attributing Beliefs and Attitudes when the Experiencer is Implicit: The Difference between Discourse and Attitude Adjectives / 162
Gina Taranto
Argumentative Zoning for Improved Citation Indexing / 166
Simone Teufel
Characterizing Attitudinal Behaviors in On-Line Open-Sources / 172
Richard M. Tong and Ronald R. Yager
Acquisition of Subjective Adjectives with Limited Resources / 175
Stefano Vegnaduzzo
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