Influence of Information Structure on the Salience of Opinions
- We study the influence of information structure on the salience of subjective expressions for human readers. Using an online survey tool, we conducted an experiment in which we asked users to rate main and relative clauses that contained either a single positive or negative or a neutral adjective. The statistical analysis of the data shows that subjective expressions are more prominent in main clauses where they are asserted than in relative clauses where they are presupposed. A corpus study suggests that speakers are sensitive to this differential salience in their production of subjective expressions.
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Main Conference Proceedings of the 12th Konvens 2014
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| Author: | Josef Ruppenhofer, Daniela Schneevogt |
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| URN: | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:hil2-opus-2703 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 12th edition of the KONVENS conference |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2014/10/23 |
| Release Date: | 2014/10/23 |
| Tag: | Sentiment Analyse Opinion Mining; Sentiment Analysis |
| GND Keyword: | Computerlinguistik |
| First Page: | 96 |
| Last Page: | 105 |
| PPN: | Link zum Katalog |
| Institutes: | Fachbereich III / Informationswissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Collections: | KONVENS 2014 / Proceedings of the 12th KONVENS 2014 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
