Using Appraisal Taxonomies for Sentiment Analysis
Casey Whitelaw · 2005
Recent years have seen a growing interest in non-topical text analysis, in which characterizations are sought of the opinions, feelings, and attitudes expressed in a text, rather than just the facts. A key problem in this area is sentiment classification, in which a document is labelled as a positive (‘thumbs up’) or negative (’thumbs down’) evaluation of a target object (film, book, product, etc.). Immediate applications include data and web mining, market research, and customer relationship management.