Evaluating an Opinion Annotation Scheme Using a New Multi-Perspective Question and Answer Corpus

  • Veselin Stoyanov ,
  • Claire Cardie ,
  • Diane Litman ,
  • Janyce Wiebe

Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text: Theories and Applications |

In recent work, Wiebe et al. (2003; 2002) propose a semantic representation for encoding the opinions and perspectives expressed at any given point in a text. This paper evaluates the opinion annotation scheme for multi-perspective vs. factbased question answering using a new question and answer corpus.