Exploratory Analysis of News Sentiment Using Subgroup Discovery

Anita Valmarska, Luis Adrián Cabrera-Diego, Elvys Linhares Pontes, Senja Pollak


Abstract
In this study, we present an exploratory analysis of a Slovenian news corpus, in which we investigate the association between named entities and sentiment in the news. We propose a methodology that combines Named Entity Recognition and Subgroup Discovery - a descriptive rule learning technique for identifying groups of examples that share the same class label (sentiment) and pattern (features - Named Entities). The approach is used to induce the positive and negative sentiment class rules that reveal interesting patterns related to different Slovenian and international politicians, organizations, and locations.
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2021.bsnlp-1.7
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Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing
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April
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2021
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Kiyv, Ukraine
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BSNLP
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SIGSLAV
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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66–72
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Anita Valmarska, Luis Adrián Cabrera-Diego, Elvys Linhares Pontes, and Senja Pollak. 2021. Exploratory Analysis of News Sentiment Using Subgroup Discovery. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing, pages 66–72, Kiyv, Ukraine. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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