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Extrapolating Subjectivity Research to Other Languages
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Socrates articulated it best, "Speak, so I may see you." Indeed, language represents an invisible probe into the mind. It is the medium through which we express our deepest thoughts, our aspirations, our views, our feelings, our inner reality. From the beginning of artificial intelligence, researchers have sought to impart human like understanding to machines. As much of our language represents a form of self expression, capturing thoughts, beliefs, evaluations, opinions, and emotions which are not available for scrutiny by an outside observer, in the field of natural language, research involving these aspects has crystallized under the name of subjectivity and sentiment analysis. While subjectivity classification labels text as either subjective or objective, sentiment classification further divides subjective text into either positive, negative or neutral. In this thesis, I investigate techniques of generating tools and resources for subjectivity analysis that do not rely on an existing natural language processing infrastructure in a given language. This constraint is motivated by the fact that the vast majority of human languages are scarce from an electronic point of view: they lack basic tools such as part-of-speech taggers, parsers, or basic resources such as electronic text, annotated corpora or lexica. This severely limits the implementation of techniques on par with those developed for English, and by applying methods that are lighter in the usage of text processing infrastructure, we are able to conduct multilingual subjectivity research in these languages as well. Since my aim is also to minimize the amount of manual work required to develop lexica or corpora in these languages, the techniques proposed employ a lever approach, where English often acts as the donor language (the fulcrum in a lever) and allows through a relatively minimal amount of effort to establish preliminary subjectivity research in a target language.
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multilingual subjectivity; Natural language processing; subjectivity analysis
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URL: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271777/
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Multilingual Subjectivity: Are More Languages Better?
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In: International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2010, Beijing, China (2010)
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Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation
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In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2009, Singapore (2009)
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Integrating Knowledge for Subjectivity Sense Labeling
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In: Association for Computational Linguistics. North American Chapter (NAACL) Conference, 2009, Boulder, Colorado, United States (2009)
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Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation
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In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States (2008)
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Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections
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In: Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2007, Prague, Czech Republic (2007)
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