ELRA - ELRA-U-W 0269 : MPQA Opinion Corpus

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MPQA Opinion Corpus

This corpus contains 535 news articles and a total of 11,114 sentences. They concern the following topics:
- Argentina: economic collapse in Argentina.
- Axis of evil: reaction to President Bush's 2002 State of the Union Address.
- Guantanamo: U.S. holding prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
- Human rights: reaction to U.S. State Department report on human rights.
- Kyoto: ratification of Kyoto Protocol.
- Mugabe: 2002 presidental election in Zimbabwe.
- Settlements: Israeli settlements in Gaza and West Bank.
- Space station: space missions of various countries.
- Taiwan: relations between Taiwan and China.
- Venezuela: presidential coup in Venezuela.

Articles have been manually annotated for opinions and sentiments (beliefs, emotions, sentiments, speculations, etc.).

The first version of the corpus was developed for a Workshop on Multi-Perspective Question Answering (MPQA).

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Period of coverage :

Version : v1.2
Version history : v1.0: 2002

Applications

	Applications possible : Information retrieval
application Area : Research

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written corpus
Number of languages : Monolingual
Language(s) : English (USA)