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People often use similes of pattern “as adjective as noun” to express their feelings on web medias. The adjective in the pattern is generally the salient property and strong impression of the noun entity in the speaker’s mind. By querying the simile templates from search engines, we construct a large database of “noun-adjective” items in English and Chinese, which highlight the same and different basic sentiments on the same entity in the two languages. The approach is a fast and efficient way to extract people’s basic sentiments and feelings across languages.
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Li, B., Kuang, H., Zhang, Y., Chen, J., Tang, X. (2012). Using Similes to Extract Basic Sentiments across Languages. In: Wang, F.L., Lei, J., Gong, Z., Luo, X. (eds) Web Information Systems and Mining. WISM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7529. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33469-6_66
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