Summarizing threads in blogs using opinion polarity

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Title: Summarizing threads in blogs using opinion polarity
Authors: Balahur Dobrescu, Alexandra | Lloret, Elena | Boldrini, Ester | Montoyo, Andres | Palomar, Manuel | Martínez-Barco, Patricio
Research Group/s: Procesamiento del Lenguaje y Sistemas de Información (GPLSI)
Center, Department or Service: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos
Keywords: Opinion mining | Sentiment analysis | Blog posts | Automatic summarization
Knowledge Area: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos
Issue Date: 2009
Publisher: INCOMA
Citation: BALAHUR, Alexandra, et al. "Summarizing threads in blogs using opinion polarity". En: Proceedings of Events in Emerging Text Types (eETTs) : Borovets, Bulgaria, 17 September 2009. Shoumen : INCOMA, 2009. ISBN 978-954-452-011-3, 23-31
Abstract: The huge amount of data available on the Web needs to be organized in order to be accessible to users in real time. This paper presents a method for summarizing subjective texts based on the strength of the opinion expressed in them. We used a corpus of blog posts and their corresponding comments (blog threads) in English, structured around five topics and we divided them according to their polarity and subsequently summarized. Despite the difficulties of real Web data, the results obtained are encouraging; an average of 79% of the summaries is considered to be comprehensible. Our work allows the user to obtain a summary of the most relevant opinions contained in the blog. This allows them to save time and be able to look for information easily, allowing more effective searches on the Web.
Sponsor: The research of Elena Lloret has been supported by the FPI grant (BES-2007-16268) from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, under the project TEXT-MESS (TIN2006-15265-C06-01). The research has been also partially founded by the European Commission under FP6project QALL-ME number IST-033860.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/22493
ISBN: 978-954-452-011-3
Language: eng
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
Peer Review: si
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