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.

Abstract Task-based language teaching has received increased attention in second language research. However, the combination of structured input-based approach and task-based language teaching has not been examined in relation to L2 grammar learning. To address this gap, the present study investigated how the structured input-based tasks with and without explicit information impacted learners’ ...

While much recent progress has been made in research on fact-based question answering, our work aims to extend question-answering research in a different direction — to handle multi-perspective question-answering tasks, i.e. question-answering tasks that require an ability to find and organize opinions in text. In particular, this paper proposes an approach to multi-perspective question answeri...

Background: Due to the unpredictable nature of disasters, it is crucial to anticipate, define and divide tasks as preparedness activities to respond efficiently. This is because the organizations involved in, becoming aware of their own tasks and other organizations’ tasks. The aim of this study was to explore discrepancies in the viewpoints of members of Kerman University of medical sciences a...

Abstract Task-based language teaching has received increased attention in second language research. However, the combination of structured input-based approach and task-based language teaching has not been examined in relation to L2 grammar learning. To address this gap, the present study investigated how the structured input-based tasks with and without explicit information impacted learners’ ...

The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness applying three gap tasks, namely gaps reasoning, opinion, and information in improving middle-level students' speaking skills. research method used is quasi-experimental. participants totaled 200 students who were divided into two groups, experimental control. Participants groups one control group. initial ability each group tested ensure ...

Over the past 5 years, a small group of cancer patients who stated their physicians had determined there were no additional available antineoplastic therapeutic options (including potential investigational strategies) were seen for a 'second opinion' in a cancer hospital-based oncology program and subsequently experienced what can reasonably be characterized as having achieved meaningful 'clini...

In this paper we introduce the NTCIR6 Opinion Analysis Pilot Task, information about the Chinese, Japanese, and English data, plans for future opinion analysis tasks at NTCIR, and a brief overview of the evaluation results. This pilot task is a sentence-level opinion identification and polarity detection task run over data from a comparable corpus in three languages: Chinese, English, and Japan...

This paper describes our work in the Simplified Chinese opinion analysis tasks in NTCIR-8. In the task of detecting opinioned sentences, various sentiment lexicons are used, including opinion indicators, opinion operators, degree adverbs and opinion words. The linear SVM model is selected as the main classifier, and four groups of features are extracted according to punctuations, words and sent...