Identifying Formal and Functional Zones in Film Reviews
Heike Bieler, Stefanie Dipper, Manfred Stede · 2007
We describe our system for breaking a film review (as an instance of a semi-structured document) into its formal and functional constituents.Based on a corpus study, we devised a set of 25 zone labels indicating the role that a unit can play within the review.We identify formal zones with a set of symbolic rules, while the distinction between descriptive and evaluative paragraphs is drawn with a statistical classifier.The approach achieves between 70 and 79% precision in recognizing the zones in our corpus.