A system for summarizing and visualizing arguments in subjective documents
Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa · 2006
On the World Wide Web, the volume of subjective information, such as opinions and reviews, has been increasing rapidly.The trends and rules latent in a large set of subjective descriptions can potentially be useful for decision-making purposes.In this paper, we propose a method for summarizing subjective descriptions, specifically opinions in Japanese.We visualize the pro and con arguments for a target topic, such as "Should Japan introduce the summertime system?" Users can summarize the arguments about the topic in order to choose a more reasonable standpoint for decision making.We evaluate our system, called "OpinionReader", experimentally.