| Challenge: | Negation is a contextual phenomenon that needs to be addressed in sentiment analysis. |
| Approach: | They propose a supervised learning approach to disambiguate verbal shifters using generalization features and a new lexicon. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach takes into account various features, particularly generalization features. |
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