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We present a prototype system, code-named Pulse, for mining topics and sentiment orientation jointly from free text customer feedback. We describe the application of the prototype system to a database of car reviews. Pulse enables the exploration of large quantities of customer free text. The user can examine customer opinion “at a glance” or explore the data at a finer level of detail. We describe a simple but effective technique for clustering sentences, the application of a bootstrapping approach to sentiment classification, and a novel user-interface.
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Gamon, M., Aue, A., Corston-Oliver, S., Ringger, E. (2005). Pulse: Mining Customer Opinions from Free Text. In: Famili, A.F., Kok, J.N., Peña, J.M., Siebes, A., Feelders, A. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis VI. IDA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3646. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11552253_12
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