Recognizing and organizing opinions expressed in the world press

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Engineering
Department Computing, School of
Creator Riloff, Ellen M.
Other Author Wiebe, Janyce; Breck, Eric; Buckley, Chris; Cardie, Claire; Davis, Paul; Fraser, Bruce; Litman, Diane; Pierce, David; Wilson, Theresa; Day, Day; Maybury, Mark
Title Recognizing and organizing opinions expressed in the world press
Date 2003
Description Tomorrow's question answering systems will need to have the ability to process information about beliefs, opinions, and evaluations-the perspective of an agent. Answers to many simple factual questions-even yes/no questions-are affected by the perspective of the information source. For example, a questioner asking question (1) might be interested to know that, in general, sources in European and North American governments tend to answer "no" to question (1), while sources in African governments tend to answer "yes:"
Type Text
Publisher Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
First Page 1
Last Page 8
Subject Opinions; Opinion recognition; World press; MPQA project; Multiple perspectives
Subject LCSH Information retrieval; Question-answering systems; Subjectivity; Prejudices in the press
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Wiebe, J., Breck, E., Buckley, C., Cardie, C., Davis, P., Fraser, B., Litman, D., Pierce, D., Riloff, E. M., Wilson, T., Day, D., & Maybury, M. (2003). Recognizing and organizing opinions expressed in the world press. AAAI Spring Symposium on New Directions in Question Answering, 1-8.
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64x5s7m
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