Title: Automatic acquisition for sensibility knowledge using co-occurrence relation

Authors: Tomoko Yoshinari, El-Sayed Atlam, Kazuhiro Morita, Kumiko Kiyoi, Jun-ichi Aoe

Addresses: Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minami Josanjima Tokushima-shi, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan. ' Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minami Josanjima Tokushima-shi, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan. ' Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minami Josanjima Tokushima-shi, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan. ' Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minami Josanjima Tokushima-shi, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan. ' Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minami Josanjima Tokushima-shi, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan

Abstract: When companies obtain customer opinions and requests from free-styled writings, sensibility expressions are important because they include personal subjectivity such as claims |Too much dust|. Sensibility knowledge registered in the expressions is difficult to build manually. In order to reduce personal burden for building sensibility knowledge, this paper presents a method to acquire sensibility expressions automatically by using co-occurrence relation. According to experimental results of co-occurrence knowledge registered 1,300,000 terms, the rate of correct answers included in acquired sensibility expressions is 73.5%.

Keywords: sensibility expression; co-occurrence knowledge; automatic acquisition; similar expressions; subjectivity.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2008.021944

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2008 Vol.33 No.2/3, pp.218 - 225

Published online: 10 Dec 2008 *

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