Recent research on English word sense subjectivity has shown that the subjective aspect of an entity is a characteristic that is better delineated at the sense level, instead of the traditional word level. In this paper, we seek to explore whether senses aligned across languages exhibit this trait consistently, and if this is the case, we investigate how this property can be leveraged in an aut...

Many historians of sexuality explore how sexual subjectivity has taken shape in recent centuries, while historical sociologists tend to focus upon the intimate and erotic aspects of emergent social institutions. Symbolic interactionist sociology can add a new dimension to the existing debates, shifting the primary focus from the history of sexuality to a theoretically informed analysis of sexua...

Subjectivity detection can prevent a sentiment classifier from considering irrelevant or potentially misleading text. Since, different attributes may correspond to different opinions in the lexicon of different languages, we resort to multiple kernel learning (MKL) to simultaneously optimize the different modalities. Previous approaches to MKL for sentence classifiers are computationally slow a...

User modeling is traditionally about constructing an explicit representation of the user. We argue against such approach because it overlooks the real nature of the human brain: plasticity and absence of monolithic control. Instead, we suggest to focus not on the modeling of the primary mechanism that explains a user’s response but on the mechanisms through which technology can mediate as compl...

In this research we aim to detect subjective sentences in spontaneous speech and label them for polarity. We introduce a novel technique wherein subjective patterns are learned from both labeled and unlabeled data, using n-grams with varying levels of lexical instantiation. Applying this technique to meeting speech, we gain significant improvement over state-of-theart approaches and demonstrate...

The phenomenon of intercultural communication has been the subject of a great deal of research in the field of ESL education; however, the research has been primarily focused on the incorporation of target culture in foreign language curriculum. Starting with the current situation of cultural awareness, this paper stresses the importance of establishing cultural subjectivity so as to adopt the ...

Palmer’s “subjectivity barrier” seems to be erected on a popular but highly suspect conception of visual experience, and his “color room” argument is invalid. Palmer beautifully articulates a view that many philosophers and psychologists have found compelling: In attempting to understand the mind, scientists face an impenetrable “subjectivity barrier,” behind which lies the “nature of [our] exp...

Although there is by now a considerable amount of research on subjectivity and sentiment analysis on morphologicallyrich languages, it is still unclear how lexical information can best be modeled in these languages. To bridge this gap, we build effective models exploiting exclusively gold and machine-segmented lexical input and successfully employ syntactically motivated feature selection to im...

People are sharing their opinions, stories and reviews through online video sharing websites every day. Studying sentiment and subjectivity in these opinion videos is experiencing a growing attention from academia and industry. While sentiment analysis has been successful for text, it is an understudied research question for videos and multimedia content. The biggest setbacks for studies in thi...

With the wide-world expansion of the social web, subjectivity analysis became lately one of the main research focus in the area of intelligent information retrieval. Being able to find out what people feel about a specific topic, be it a marketed product, a public person or a political issue, represents a very interesting application for a large class of actors, from the everyday product and se...