In this paper, we briefly summarize our experience in participating in the Multilingual Opinion Analysis (MOAT) tasks in NTCIR-8 and present our preliminary experimental analysis of the effects of the opinion lexicons employed in Chinese opinion mining.

The purpose of this paper is to show how opinion mining may offer an alternative way to improve course evaluation using students' attitudes posted on Internet forums, discussion groups and/or blogs, which are collectively called user-generated content. We propose a model to mine knowledge from students' opinions to improve teaching effectiveness in academic institutes. Opinion mining is used to...

Software review text fragments have considerably valuable information about users’ experience. It includes a huge set of properties including the software quality. Opinion mining or sentiment analysis is concerned with analyzing textual user judgments. The application of sentiment analysis on software reviews can find a quantitative value that represents software quality. Although many software...

In recent years, sentiment analysis and opinion mining has grown to be one of the most active research areas. Most of the existing researches on feature-level opinion mining are dedicated to extract explicitly appeared features and opinion words. However, among the numerous kinds of reviews on the web, there are a significant number of reviews that contain only opinion words which imply some pr...

The question is addressed if opinion mining techniques can be successfully used to automatically retrieve political viewpoints in Dutch parliamentary publications. Two specific tasks are identified: automatically determining subjectivity in the publications and automatically determining the semantic orientation of the subjective parts. A collection of recent parliamentary publications has been ...