Subjective behavior is essential for applications that must adapt their behavior to changing circumstances. Many different solutions have been proposed in the past, based, for example, on perspectives, roles, contextual layers, and “force trees”. Although these approaches are somehow equally expressive, each imposes a particular world view which may not be appropriate for all applications. We p...

In this work, we present a sentence-level subjectivity detection method, which relies on Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation (SWSD). We use an unsupervised sense clustering-based method for SWSD. In our method, semantic resources tagged with emotions and sentiment polarities are used to apply subjectivity detection, intervening Word Sense Disambiguation sub-tasks. Through an experimental stu...

Subjectivity is essential to consciousness. But though subjectivity is necessary for consciousness it is not sufficient. In part one I derive a distinction between conscious awareness and unconscious subjectivity from a critique of Block’s (1995) distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness. In part two I contrast two historically influential models of unconscious thought: cognitive ...

Subjectivity analysis has received increasing attention in natural language processing field. Most of the subjectivity analysis works however are conducted on single languages. In this paper, we propose to perform multilingual subjectivity analysis by combining multi-view learning and AdaBoost techniques. We aim to show that by boosting multi-view classifiers we can develop more effective multi...

It is no more useful for researchers to acknowledge simply that subjectivity is an invariable component of their research than it is for them to assert that their ideal is to achieve objectivity. Acknowledgments and assertions are not sufficient. Beginning with the premise that subjectivity is inevitable, this paper argues that researchers should systematically seek out their subjectivity, not ...

We address the issue of human subjectivity when authoring summaries, aiming at a simple, robust evaluation of machine generated summaries. Applying a cross comprehension test on human authored short summaries from broadcast news, the level of subjectivity is gauged among four authors. The instruction set is simple, thus there is enough room for subjectivity. However the approach is robust becau...