Recognizing and Organizing Opinions Expressed in the World Press

New Directions in Question Answering

Volume

Papers from the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

The purposes of this paper are: To motivate the need for information about opinions in support of question answering. To introduce a framework for annotating, learning, and using information about opinions. To demonstrate that information about opinions can be effectively annotated. To demonstrate that information about opinions can be effectively learned. To formulate a methodology for evaluating the contribution of perspective information to question answering style applications.