Research Interests
Publications, Corpora, Software, and Bibliography
A new version of the MPQA corpus was released January 2009 which includes attitude annotations (such as positive and negative sentiments and arguing) as well as target span annotations. Both versions are available at the link below.
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Bibliography of work in subjectivity and sentiment analysis: .bib file and .html table
The MPQA opinion annotated corpus, OpinionFinder system and our subjectivity lexicon including prior polarity/sentiment annotations are available at http://www.cs.pitt.edu/mpqa
The gold standard manual subjectivity sense annotations used in Wiebe and Mihalcea ACL 2006 are available here. The definitions of those words from WordNet 2.0 are here. The larger set of annotations used in Gyamfi, Wiebe, Mihalcea NAACL 2009 will be available soon.
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Current Course
* ISBN-10: 1934356271
* ISBN-13: 978-1934356272
Recent Activities
Area Chair in Sentiment Analysis, NAACL 2010.
Program Co-Chair, ACL-IJCNLP 2009.
Other recent program committees : EMNLP09; ACL08 (Area Chair); AAAI08; COLING08; EMNLP07 (Area Chair); ACL 2007 Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora (Co-Chair); ACL07; IJCAI07; AAAI07; NAACL07; International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2007; ACL07 Student Research Workshop.
Recent Invited Talks: FLAIRS, May 2009; University of Edinburgh, June 2009; University of Osnabrück, June 2009; Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, August 2009.
Theresa Wilson graduated with her PhD, April 2008. Here is her dissertation: Fine-Grained Subjectivity Analysis
Current Projects
NLP Foundational Studies & Ontologies for Syndromic Surveillance from Emergency Department Reports. National Library of Medicine.
Subjectivity and Word Sense. National Science Foundation.