Opinion Mining in Newspaper Articles by Entropy-Based Word Connections
THOMAS D. SCHOLZ, Stefan Conrad · 2013
A very valuable piece of information in newspaper articles is the tonality of extracted statements.For the analysis of tonality of newspaper articles either a big human effort is needed, when it is carried out by media analysts, or an automated approach which has to be as accurate as possible for a Media Response Analysis (MRA).To this end, we will compare several state-of-the-art approaches for Opinion Mining in newspaper articles in this paper.Furthermore, we will introduce a new technique to extract entropy-based word connections which identifies the word combinations which create a tonality.In the evaluation, we use two different corpora consisting of news articles, by which we show that the new approach achieves better results than the four state-of-the-art methods.