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OpinionFinder 1.x Available versions

OpinionFinder 1.x relies on many external software packages (e.g. SUNDANCE, SCOL, BoosTexter) which are neither built nor supported by our group. Since OpinionFinder was originally released in 2005, there are some compatibility issues with versions of various software and packages. We have reports that these problems sometimes result in an exhausting and even unsuccessful installation process of OpinionFinder. Since many of the people involved in the original development have graduated and left the group, we do not currently have the resources to address these compatibility issues concerning the required external software packages. Although we do not have the resources to bring OpinionFinder 1.x fully up-to-date, we are currently working on a new version of OpinionFinder. OpinionFinder 2 is being written in Java and will be platform-independent.

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This research was supported in part by NSF Grants IIS-0208798 and IIS-0208985

References

Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff, and Siddharth Patwardhan (2005). Identifying Sources of Opinions with Conditional Random Fields and Extraction Patterns. Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP 2005).

Ellen Riloff and Janyce Wiebe (2003). Learning Extraction Patterns for Subjective Expressions. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-03). ACL SIGDAT. Pages 105-112.

Janyce Wiebe (2002). Instructions for Annotating Opinions in Newspaper Articles. Department of Computer Science Technical Report TR-02-101, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

Janyce Wiebe and Ellen Riloff (2005). Creating subjective and objective sentence classifiers from unannotated texts. Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2005). [Invited talk by Ellen Riloff]

Janyce Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, and Claire Cardie (2005). Annotating expressions of opinions and emotions in language. Language Resources and Evaluation, volume 39, issue 2-3, pp. 165-210.

Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe and Paul Hoffmann (2005). Recognizing Contextual Polarity in Phrase-Level Sentiment Analysis. Human Language Technologies Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP 2005).

Theresa Wilson, Paul Hoffmann, Swapna Somasundaran, Jason Kessler, JanyceWiebe, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff, Siddharth Patwardhan (2005). OpinionFinder: A system for subjectivity analysis. Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005 Interactive Demonstrations. (demo)

FAQ

The "make" command in the sundance_apps_4.37 directory crashes during installation
These are common errors that users face when installing SUNDANCE version 4.37 with the newer GCC versions (versions >= v3.4.4). To remedy this, copy the following header file hash.h into SUNDANCE's "include" directory: sundance-4.37/include (overwriting the "hash.h" currently there). Then compile SUNDANCE.

Errors are thrown from opinionfinder/bin/speech_dirsubj/identifyDSESEs.py
Check the python version compatibility - you will need python version 2.3 or higher.