Distinguishing Opinion from News
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Newspapers have separate sections for opinion articles and news articles. The goal of this project is to classify articles as opinion versus news and also to do analysis of the results to figure out the factors that distinguish the two. Preliminary results show that in this is possible with unigram features in an SVM with F1 of .90.
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