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A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts

Computation and Language 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Sentiment analysis seeks to identify the viewpoint(s) underlying a text span; an example application is classifying a movie review as "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". To determine this sentiment polarity, we propose a novel machine-learning method that applies text-categorization techniques to just the subjective portions of the document. Extracting these portions can be implemented using efficient techniques for finding minimum cuts in graphs; this greatly facilitates incorporation of cross-sentence contextual constraints.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0409058,
  title  = {A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts},
  author = {Bo Pang and Lillian Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0409058},
  year   = {2007}
}

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