Systems and methods for dynamically determining the attitude...

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2007-08-21

2007-08-21

Hudspeth, David (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Linguistics

Natural language

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10387719

ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for analyzing speech containing at least one lexical item, said analysis to determine an attitude of a speaker towards an entity, comprising determining at least one actual valence for the at least one lexical item by analyzing the at least one lexical item in context; determining the attitude based on the at least one actual valence; associating the speaker, the entity and the attitude; and wherein the at least one lexical item encodes attitude information about the entity.

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