Word Sense and Subjectivity
- Janyce Wiebe ,
- Rada Mihalcea
Proceedings of COLING/ACL-06, the 21st Conference on Computational Linguistics / Association for Computational Linguistics |
Published by Association for Computational Linguistics
Subjectivity and meaning are both important properties of language. This paper explores their interaction, and brings empirical evidence in support of the hypotheses that (1) subjectivity is a property that can be associated with word senses, and (2) word sense disambiguation can directly benefit from subjectivity annotations.