A lexicon based method to search for extreme opinions

PLoS One. 2018 May 25;13(5):e0197816. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197816. eCollection 2018.

Abstract

Studies in sentiment analysis and opinion mining have been focused on many aspects related to opinions, namely polarity classification by making use of positive, negative or neutral values. However, most studies have overlooked the identification of extreme opinions (most negative and most positive opinions) in spite of their vast significance in many applications. We use an unsupervised approach to search for extreme opinions, which is based on the automatic construction of a new lexicon containing the most negative and most positive words.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Attitude*
  • Humans
  • Unsupervised Machine Learning*
  • Vocabulary*

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.