TY - CONF T1 - Supervised and unsupervised methods in employing discourse relations for improving opinion polarity classification T2 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 1 - Volume 1 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Somasundaran,Swapna A1 - Namata,Galileo A1 - Wiebe,Janyce A1 - Getoor, Lise AB - This work investigates design choices in modeling a discourse scheme for improving opinion polarity classification. For this, two diverse global inference paradigms are used: a supervised collective classification framework and an unsupervised optimization framework. Both approaches perform substantially better than baseline approaches, establishing the efficacy of the methods and the underlying discourse scheme. We also present quantitative and qualitative analyses showing how the improvements are achieved. JA - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 1 - Volume 1 T3 - EMNLP '09 PB - Association for Computational Linguistics CY - Stroudsburg, PA, USA SN - 978-1-932432-59-6 UR - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1699510.1699533 ER -