Finding compositional rules for determining the semantic orientation of phrases

António Paulo Santos, João Carlos Ramos, Nuno Marques

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Abstract

The semantic compositionality principle states that the meaning of an expression can be determined by its parts and the way they are put together. Based on that principle, this paper presents a method for finding the set of compositional rules that best explain the positive, negative, and neutral semantic orientation (SO) of two-word phrases, in terms of the SO of its words. For instance, the phrase “fake contract” has a negative SO. A corpus was built for evaluating the proposed method and several experiences are reported. We also use the conditional probability as a reliability measure of the compositional rules. The reliability of the learned rules ranges from 60.44 % for verb-noun phrases to 100 % for adjective-adjective phrases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Processing of the Portuguese Language - 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages128-133
Number of pages6
Volume9727
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-41552-9
ISBN (Print) 978-331941551-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2016 - Tomar, Portugal
Duration: 13 Jul 201615 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9727
ISSN (Print)03029743
ISSN (Electronic)16113349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2016
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityTomar
Period13/07/1615/07/16

Keywords

  • Compositional rules
  • Semantic orientation
  • Sentiment analysis

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