Computer Engineering / Bilgisayar Mühendisliği
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Conference Object Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1A Relativistic Opinion Mining Approach To Detect Factual or Opinionated News Sources(Springer Verlag, 2017) Sezerer, Erhan; Tekir, SelmaThe credibility of news cannot be isolated from that of its source. Further, it is mainly associated with a news source’s trustworthiness and expertise. In an effort to measure the trustworthiness of a news source, the factor of “is factual or opinionated” must be considered among others. In this work, we propose an unsupervised probabilistic lexicon-based opinion mining approach to describe a news source as “being factual or opinionated”. We get words’ positive, negative, and objective scores from a sentiment lexicon and normalize these scores through the use of their cumulative distribution. The idea behind the use of such a statistical approach is inspired from the relativism that each word is evaluated with its difference from the average word. In order to test the effectiveness of the approach, three different news sources are chosen. They are editorials, New York Times articles, and Reuters articles, which differ in their characteristic of being opinionated. Thus, the experimental validation is done by the analysis of variance on these different groups of news. The results prove that our technique can distinguish the news articles from these groups with respect to “being factual or opinionated” in a statistically significant way.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 18Citation - Scopus: 25Adaptation and Use of Subjectivity Lexicons for Domain Dependent Sentiment Classification(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2012) Dehkharghani, Rahim; Yanıkoğlu, Berrin; Tapucu, Dilek; Saygın, YücelSentiment analysis refers to the automatic extraction of sentiments from a natural language text. We study the effect of subjectivity-based features on sentiment classification on two lexicons and also propose new subjectivity-based features for sentiment classification. The subjectivity-based features we experiment with are based on the average word polarity and the new features that we propose are based on the occurrence of subjective words in review texts. Experimental results on hotel and movie reviews show an overall accuracy of about 84% and 71% in hotel and movie review domains respectively; improving the baseline using just the average word polarities by about 2% points. © 2012 IEEE.