| 摘要 |
System and methods are disclosed for determining the connotation or sentiment type of a text unit comprising multiple terms and with a grammatical structure, such as subject+verb, verb+object, adjective+noun, noun+noun, noun+preposition+noun. The connotation or sentiment type of the text unit is determined by applying context rules where the context of the grammatical structure may change the inherent or default connotations of individual terms in the text unit. The methods provide a solution to the challenge of correctly or accurately determining the sentiment type of various linguistic structures under different context, and to the simplistic approach of using the inherent or default connotation of individual terms for the linguistic structure containing such terms. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method for determining the connotation of a multi-term text unit, comprising:
identifying a first term and a second term in a text unit comprising two or more terms; identifying a grammatical attribute associated with the terms in the text unit, where in the grammatical attributes includes at least the grammatical roles of a subject, an object, a head, a modifier, and parts of speech of a noun, a verb, a preposition, an adjective, and adverb; defining a group of terms comprising a subset of terms in a language, or attaching a label to a subset of terms in a language contained in a dictionary, based on the behavior pattern of the terms in determining the connotation of a multi-term text unit containing one of the terms; and determining the connotation of the text unit based on the group membership or the attached label of at least one of the terms in the text unit, and the grammatical attribute associated with at least one of the terms in the text unit, wherein the connotation of the text unit can be positive, negative, or neutral. |
