Process / pipeline
Subjectivity Detection — Objective vs. Subjective Text
Subjectivity detection is a natural-language-processing task that classifies whether a sentence or document conveys objective (neutral information) or subjective (personal opinion, emotion) content. Grounded in the opinion-annotation work of Wiebe and colleagues (2005) and Pang and Lee (2004), it is most often used as a preliminary step before sentiment analysis.
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Sources
- Wiebe, J., Wilson, T. & Cardie, C. (2005). Annotating Expressions of Opinions and Emotions in Language. Language Resources and Evaluation, 39(2-3), 165-210. DOI: 10.1007/s10579-005-7880-9 ↗
- Pang, B. & Lee, L. (2004). A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts. Proceedings of ACL. link ↗