Summarizing Opinions in Blog Threads
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چکیده
In this paper we present an approach to summarizing positive and negative opinions in blog threads. We first run a sentiment analysis system and consequently pass its output through a standard LSA-based text summarization system. Further on, we evaluate our approach and present the results obtained, which we believe are promising in the context of multi-document text summarization. Finally, we discuss the main issues in applying standard text summarization techniques to the slightly different task of summarizing opinions in blog threads.
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