Mehrnoush Shamsfard

Using Data Mining Techniques for Sentiment Shifter Identification

2016

Sentiment shifters, i.e., words and expressions that can affect text polarity, play an important role in opinion mining.However, the limited ability of current automated opinion mining systems to handle shifters represents a major challenge.The majority …

Mahtab at SemEval-2017 Task 2: Combination of Corpus-based and Knowledge-based Methods to Measure Semantic Word Similarity

2017

In this paper, we describe our proposed method for measuring semantic similarity for a given pair of words at SemEval-2017 monolingual semantic word similarity task. We use a combination of knowledge-based and corpus-based techniques. We …