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Post 13

Working on the sentiment of text

01-May-2009

It's been quite a long time (almost 3 months) since I last blogged. I have been working with Dr. Alias on an article for this year's SEPLN conference San Sebastian 2009. Our work deals with positive/negative text classification from sentence-level annotations of emotions regarding models of affect.

This paper presents a text classifier to automatically tag the sentiment of a text according to the emotion that is being conveyed. This system has a sequential framework composed of Natural Language Processing modules for feature extraction and a binary classifier for decision making between positive and negative categories. In order to train the classification system the Semeval 2007 dataset is of use, which is composed of sentences emotionally annotated, after being mapped into a model of affect. The resulting scheme stands a first level of classification in order to achieve a complete emotional text classifier.

The system we have obtained is indeed an evolution of the EmoLib library. As soon as we get feedback from the referees of the conference I will post the future work for the project.



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