Sentence and Expression Level Annotation of Opinions in User-Generated Discourse
Toprak, Cigdem and Jakob, Niklas and Gurevych, Iryna

Article Structure

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a corpus of consumer reviews from the rateitall and the eopinions websites annotated with opinion-related information.

Introduction

There has been a huge interest in the automatic identification and extraction of opinions from free text in recent years.

Previous Opinion Annotated Corpora

2.1 Newspaper Articles and Meeting Dialogs

Annotation Scheme

3.1 Opinion versus Polar Facts

Annotation Study

Each review has been annotated by two annotators independently according to the annotation scheme introduced above.

Conclusions

We presented a corpus of consumer reviews from the rateitall and eopinions websites annotated with opinion related information.

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