An architecture for automatic opinion classification in Western online news

Author

Wenxin Xiong ; Jiajin Xu ; Maocheng Liang

Author_Institution

Nat. Res. Center for Foreign Language Educ., Beijing Foreign Studies Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

8-9 May 2014

Firstpage

717

Lastpage

721

Abstract

Drawing on studies in media discourse analysis and advances in natural language processing, data mining and information access, a framework for automated sentiment analysis of news report from Western mainstream media is proposed and a preliminary experiment is reported in this paper. The automated sentiment analysis system architecture comprises (1) the identification of Chinese-English equivalent query expressions; (2) the construction of domain and linguistic knowledge bases; (3) the recovery of news events; and (4) the sentiment analysis over news texts. The workflow consists of two phases, i.e. an offline construction of resources, such as comparable or parallel corpora and domain knowledge bases, which are utilized in real-time processing, and an online analysis of news texts by means of machine learning and data mining techniques. The proposed methodology leads to a quick response to different information gathered from overseas media and an efficient decision-making procedure for egovernment.

Keywords

Internet; data mining; decision making; government data processing; information resources; knowledge based systems; learning (artificial intelligence); natural language processing; pattern classification; query processing; text analysis; Chinese-English equivalent query expression identification; Western mainstream media; Western online news; automated sentiment analysis system architecture; automatic opinion classification; data mining; decision-making procedure; domain knowledge base; e-government; information access; linguistic knowledge base; machine learning; media discourse analysis; natural language processing; news event recovery; resource offline construction; Buildings; Government; Monitoring; Support vector machines; Thesauri; e-government; information architecture; online news; opinion finding; western mainstream media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Computer and Applications, 2014 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWECA.2014.6845722

Filename

6845722