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Development and use of a gold-standard data set for subjectivity classifications

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This paper presents a case study of analyzing and improving intercoder reliability in discourse tagging using statistical techniques. Bias-corrected tags are formulated and successfully used to guide a revision of the coding manual and develop an automatic classifier.

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        ACL '99: Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
        June 1999
        642 pages
        ISBN:1558606093

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