Reading Between the Lines: Attitudinal expressions in text
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This paper describes the starting points of a proposed project for attitude extraction. The project plans to extend language technology methods to text linguistic study, and apply and evaluate results in task-oriented information access systems. State of the art: words are on lines and we can
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