Emotional element extraction based on CRFs

Yashen Wang*, Quanchao Liu, Heyan Huang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

As the fast development of social network and electronic business, a huge number of comments are generated by users every day. Extraction of emotional elements is an important pre-task of sentiment analysis and opinion mining for comments. In this paper, we extract the emotional elements such as the opinion holder, the comment target, and the evaluation phrase, which previous researches rarely concerned about, especially in Chinese. Based on Conditional Random Fields, we label the evaluation phrase which structure is simple. Then on account of unique characteristics of grammar and syntax of Chinese, we design several rule-based methods to extract evaluation phrase which is in complex structure, as well as comment targets and opinion holders. According to the experimental results, our method improves the performance of emotional element extraction in the domain of sentiment analysis for automobile’s Chinese comments. And it also contributes greatly to our subsequent task such as sentiment analysis of social media or comments from other domains.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPractical Applications of Intelligent Systems - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, ISKE 2013
EditorsZhenkun Wen, Tianrui Li
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages507-517
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9783642549267
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, ISKE 2013 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 20 Nov 201323 Nov 2013

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume279
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, ISKE 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period20/11/1323/11/13

Keywords

  • Comment target
  • Evaluation phrase
  • Information extraction
  • Opinion analysis
  • Opinion holder

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