Bootstrapping polarity classifiers with rule-based classification.

In this article, we examine the effectiveness of bootstrapping supervised machine-learning polarity classifiers with the help of a domain-independent rule-based classifier that relies on a lexical resource, i.e., a polarity lexicon and a set of linguistic rules. The benefit of this method is that th...

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Published in:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 1049 - 1089
Main Authors: Wiegand, Michael, Klenner, Manfred, Klakow, Dietrich
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2013
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          Spoken Language Systems, Saarland University, Building C7.1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany
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        Polarity (Linguistics)
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        Feature selection
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