Abstract:Modelling a word's polarity in different contexts is a key task in sentiment analysis. Previous works mainly focus on domain dependencies, and assume words' sentiments are invariant within a specific domain. In this paper, we relax this assumption by binding a word's sentiment to its collocation words instead of domain labels. This finer view of sentiment contexts is particularly useful for identifying commonsense sentiments expressed in neutral words such as "big" and "long". Given a target (e.g., an aspect),… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.