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dc.contributor.authorSkomorowski, Jason
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-18 19:12:45 (GMT)
dc.date.available2007-01-18 19:12:45 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2007-01-18T19:12:45Z
dc.date.submitted2006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/2653
dc.description.abstractWith a growing amount of subjective content distributed across the Web, there is a need for a domain-independent information retrieval system that would support ad hoc retrieval of documents expressing opinions on a specific topic of the user’s query. While the research area of opinion detection and sentiment analysis has received much attention in the recent years, little research has been done on identifying subjective content targeted at a specific topic, i.e. expressing topical opinion. This thesis presents a novel method for ad hoc retrieval of documents which contain subjective content on the topic of the query. Documents are ranked by the likelihood each document expresses an opinion on a query term, approximated as the likelihood any occurrence of the query term is modified by a subjective adjective. Domain-independent user-based evaluation of the proposed methods was conducted, and shows statistically significant gains over Google ranking as the baseline.en
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectinformation retrievalen
dc.subjectcorpus linguisticsen
dc.subjectstatistical natural language processingen
dc.subjectsentiment analysisen
dc.subjectadjectivesen
dc.titleTopical Opinion Retrievalen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
dc.pendingfalseen
dc.subject.programComputer Scienceen
uws-etd.degree.departmentSchool of Computer Scienceen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Mathematicsen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen


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