Opinion mining deals with an analysis of user reviews for extracting their opinions, sentiments and demands in a specific area, which can play an important role in making major decisions in such area. In general, opinion mining extracts user reviews at three levels of document, sentence and feature. Opinion mining at the feature level is taken into consideration more than the other two levels d...

â â€œshodan” is a multifunctional verb in persian language. this paper deals with six different functions of “shodan” based on a purely formal approach. these functions are as follows: liking verb, light verb in some compound predicates, auxiliary verb, helping verb in passive voice, modal verb, and simple verb. the interface between lexicon and syntax, and the ways to show this relations...

This paper presents a syntactic lexicon for English that was originally derived from the Oxford Advanced Learner s Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English and then modi ed and augmented by hand There are more than syn tactic entries from all parts of speech An X windows based tool is available for main taining the lexicon and performing searches C and Lisp hooks are al...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the Czech subjectivity lexicon, a new lexical resource for sentiment analysis in Czech. We describe particular stages of the manual refinement of the lexicon and demonstrate its use in the state-of-the art polarity classifiers, namely the Maximum Entropy classifier. We test the success rate of the system enriched with the dictionary on different data sets, ...

One key to the success of EBMT is the removal of the boundaries limiting the potential of translation memories (TMs). We discuss a linguistically enhanced TM system, a Phrasal Lexicon (PL), which takes advantage of the huge, underused resources available in existing translation aids. We claim that PL and EBMT systems can only provide valuable translation solutions for restricted domains, especi...

This paper is rooted in the two principles and methods that should be followed by sense discrimination for Chinese language processing: Completeness and discreteness. Built on the comparison of Semantic Knowledge-base of Contemporary Chinese (SKCC) and Grammatical Knowledge base of Contemporary Chinese (GKB), supported by large scale corpus, we conducted our new editing and checking works. Firs...