• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.227-239
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• 2010

Opinion retrieval is to retrieve items which are relevant to the user information need topically and include opinion about the topic. This paper aims to find a method to represent user information need for effective opinion retrieval and to analyze the combination methods for opinion features through various experiments. The experiments are carried out in the inference network framework using the Blogs06 collection and 100 TREC test topics. The results show that our suggested representation method based on hidden 'opinion' concept is effective, and the compact model with very small opinion lexicon shows the comparable performance to the previous model on the same test data set.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.21-29
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• 2010

Opinion retrieval which searches the opinions expressed in documents by users cannot outperform significantly yet traditional topical retrieval which searches the facts. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to identify the statistical characteristics which can be applied to opinion retrieval by comparing and analyzing the term statistics of opinion and non-opinion documents in the blog domain. The TREC Blogs06 collection and 150 TREC topics are used in the experiments. The difference between term probability distributions in opinion documents is measured by JS divergence, and the difference according to the topic types and topic domains is also investigated. Moreover, the term probabilities of opinion terms are analyzed comparatively. The main findings of this study include the following: it is necessary to consider the topic-specific characteristics for the opinion detection; it is effective to extract positive and negative opinion terms according to the topics; the topic types are complementary to the topic domains; and special attention has to be given to the usage of the positive opinion terms.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.115-129
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• 2008

Recently, as its growth and popularization, the Web is changed into the place where people express, share and debate their opinions rather than the space of information seeking. Accordingly, the needs for searching opinions expressed in the Web are also increasing. However, it is difficult to meet these needs by using a classical information retrieval system that only concerns the relevance between the user's query and documents. Instead, a more advanced system that captures subjective information through documents is required. The proposed system effectively retrieves opinionated documents by utilizing an existing information retrieval system. This paper proposes a kind of hybrid method which can utilize both a dictionary-based opinion analysis technique and a machine learning based opinion analysis technique. Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective in improving the performance.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.68-79
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• 2011

This paper focuses on the opinion information extraction and analysis system through Web mining that is based on statistics collected from Web contents. That is, users' opinion information which is scattered across several websites can be automatically analyzed and extracted. The system provides the opinion information search service that enables users to search for real-time positive and negative opinions and check their statistics. Also, users can do real-time search and monitoring about other opinion information by putting keywords in the system. Proposing technique proved that the actual performance is excellent by comparison experiment with other techniques. Performance evaluation of function extracting positive/negative opinion information, the performance evaluation applying dynamic window technique and tokenizer technique for multilingual information retrieval, and the performance evaluation of technique extracting exact multilingual phonetic translation are carried out. The experiment with typical movie review sentence and Wikipedia experiment data as object as that applying example is carried out and the result is analyzed.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.492-497
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a method of retrieving opinioned tweets in Twitter, which is the one of the popular Social Network Services and shares diverse opinions among various users. In typical opinion retrieval systems, they may consider the presence of sentiment phrases (subjectivity) as the important factor even if the subjective phrases are not related to a given query or speaker. To alleviate these problems, we utilized the syntactic structure of a sentence to identify the relationships between 1) subjectivity-query and 2) subjectivity-speaker and 3) the syntactic role of subjectivity. Besides, our learning-to-rank approach is trained to retrieve opinioned tweets based on query-relevance, textual features, user information, and Twitter-specific features. Experimental results on real world data show that our proposed method can achieve better performance than several baseline methods in terms of precision and nDCG.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.321-344
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• 2015

This paper presents a fusion approach to sentiment detection that combines multiple sources of evidence to retrieve blogs that contain opinions on a specific topic. Our approach to finding opinionated blogs on topic consists of first applying traditional information retrieval methods to retrieve blogs on a given topic and then boosting the ranks of opinionated blogs based on the opinion scores computed by multiple sentiment detection methods. Our sentiment detection strategy, whose central idea is to rely on a variety of complementary evidences rather than trying to optimize the utilization of a single source of evidence, includes High Frequency module, which identifies opinions based on the frequency of opinion terms (i.e., terms that occur frequently in opinionated documents), Low Frequency module, which makes use of uncommon/rare terms (e.g., "sooo good") that express strong sentiments, IU Module, which leverages n-grams with IU (I and you) anchor terms (e.g., I believe, You will love), Wilson's lexicon module, which uses a collection-independent opinion lexicon constructed from Wilson's subjectivity terms, and Opinion Acronym module, which utilizes a small set of opinion acronyms (e.g., imho). The results of our study show that combining multiple sources of opinion evidence is an effective method for improving opinion detection performance.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.149-157
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• 2010

As the use of the Internet has recently increased, the demand for opinion information posted on the Internet has grown. However, such resources only exist on the website. People who want to search for information on the Internet find it inconvenient to visit each website. This paper focuses on the opinion information extraction and analysis system through Web mining that is based on statistics collected from Web contents. That is, users' opinion information which is scattered across several websites can be automatically analyzed and extracted. The system provides the opinion information search service that enables users to search for real-time positive and negative opinions and check their statistics. Also, users can do real-time search and monitoring about other opinion information by putting keywords in the system. Proposed technologies proved to have outstanding capabilities in comparison to existing ones through tests. The capabilities to extract positive and negative opinion information were assessed. Specifically, test movie review sentence testing data was tested and its results were analyzed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.3070-3075
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• 2010

Through Web 2.0 days, the end users express their opinions and thoughts for blogs and community spaces on the Internet. These opinions and thoughts are used to purchase products, however, users only refer to a few comments not overall opinions. Opinion Analysis System is an opinion search, developed from a natural language search, which analyzes the product's positive or negative evaluations using opinions of products and services on the Internet. In this paper, we suggest a syntactic analysis and inverse processing system that studies and processes 'Positive', 'Negative', 'Neutral' in addition to 'Inverse' information to analyze 'positive' or 'negative' for the core of sentences in Opinion Analysis Service.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.201-205
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• 2012

지식검색은 방대한 지식정보 데이터를 바탕으로 사용자의 질문에 대한 답변을 검색하는 시스템이다. 이러한 사용자 참여로 구축된 지식정보는 잘못된 답변으로 인한 신뢰성 부족과 중복 답변 등의 문제점이 있어, 원하는 답변을 찾기 위해서는 지식검색에서 다수의 답변을 읽고 그 답변의 진위여부를 판단해야만 한다. 만일 정답에 포함되는 단어나 어구가 답변들에서 나타내는 통계적 특성을 활용하여 사용자가 원하는 답변을 제시할 수 있다면, 지식검색의 효용성과 신뢰성이 크게 향상될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 지식정보 데이터 분석을 통해 사용자의 질문의 유형을 단어, 목록, 도표, 글의 4가지 유형으로 분류하고, 각 분류에 대한 사용자 질의어의 답변을 요약하는 방식을 제안한다. 단어, 목록, 글 유형은 TF와 IDF, 어휘 간의 거리 정보를 통해서 중요 단어를 추출하여 각 유형에 적합한 형식의 답변을 사용자에게 제시한다. 도표형은 답변들에서 사용자의 의견 정보를 추출하여 의견 통계를 도표로서 제시한다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.22-30
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• 2011

본 동향은 최근 이슈가 되고 있는 스마트TV 개발동향 및 시장전망에 대하여 알아보고, 스마트TV 검색 서비스에 대하여 소개한다. 스마트TV 검색 서비스는 사용자가 입력한 키워드 검색문의 의미를 해석하여 사용자가 의도하는 콘텐츠를 정확하게 찾아주는 시맨틱 기반 검색 서비스와 동일한 콘텐츠를 시청하고 있는 커뮤니티를 검색하여 콘텐츠에 대한 의견과 정보를 공유하는 소셜 네트워크 기반검색 서비스로 나누어 살펴본다.