Research Interests
Publications, Corpora, Software, and Tutorials
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The MPQA opinion annotated corpus as well as the OpinionFinder automatic system and our subjectivity lexicon (including prior polarity/sentiment annotations) are available at http://www.cs.pitt.edu/mpqa
Current Course
Recent Activities
Recent program committees : 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.
Talks and events:
Theresa Wilson successfully defended her PhD dissertation: Fine-Grained Subjectivity Analysis, May 2007.
Swapna Somasundaran Department of Homeland Security featured student, www.DHSNetwork.org, October 2007; presented "QA with Attitude: Exploiting Opinion Type Analysis for Improving Question Answering in On-line Discussions and the News" at ICWSM-2007; presented "Detecting Arguing and Sentiment in Meetings" at SIGDial-2007, September 2007.
Josef Ruppenhofer lectured at the MIAS Data Sciences Summer Institute Summer School, University of Illinois, June 2007
Jan Wiebe speaker at ISP Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, Nov 2007; speaker at a DIMACS technical symposium, Rutgers University, September 2007; speaker at the Visualization and Analytics Consortium speaker, Bellevue, WA, May 2007; EUROLAN Summer School on Semantics, Opinion, and Sentiment in Text lecturer, Iasi, Romania, July 2007; ROCLING 2007 keynote speaker, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2007; CMU IR talk series February 2008; Unified Linguistic Annotation research Workshop March 2008; Tutorial on Sentiment Analysis at ICWSM-2008, March 2008.
Current Projects
Improving Subjectivity Analysis to Achieve High-Precision Information Extraction. National Science Foundation.
Toward a Comprehensive Linguistic Annotation of Language. National Science Foundation.
NLP Foundational Studies & Ontologies for Syndromic Surveillance from Emergency Department Reports. National Library of Medicine.