Toward Comprehensive Understanding of a Sentiment Based on Human Motives (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | a new study examines the motivations of sentiment holder and their relationship to food . aspects of a sentiment are limited to properties of entities such as the price of food and design of . |
| Approach: | They define six basic motives that cover a wide range of topics appearing in review texts . they annotate 1,600 texts in restaurant and laptop domains with the motives . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on annotating 1,600 text with the motives and comparing them to other methods. |
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