Publications


 
1.   Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. Going Beyond Traditional QA Systems: Challenges and Keys in Opinion Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010).
2.   Wiegand, M.; Balahur, A., Roth, B.; Klakow, D., Montoyo, A. A Survey on the Role of Negation in Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Negation and Speculation in Natural Language Processing, NeSp-NLP 2010.
3.   Balahur, A.; Montoyo, A.  OpAL: Applying Opinion Mining Techniques for the Disambiguation of Sentiment Ambiguous Adjectives in SemEval-2 Task 18. In Proceedings of SemEval-2, the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, satellite workshop to ACL 2010.
4.   Boldrini, E.; Balahur, A., Martínez-Barco, P.; Montoyo, A. EmotiBlog: a finer-grained and more precise learning of subjectivity expression models. In Proceedings of the 4th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV), satellite workshop to ACL 2010.
5.     Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. The OpAL System at NTCIR 8 MOAT. In Proceedings of the 8th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering, and Cross-Lingual Information Access (NTCIR 8), 2010.  
6.   Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. Opinion Question Answering:Towards a Unified Approach. In Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010).
7.   Balahur, A.; Steinberger, R.; Kabadjov, M.; Zavarella, V.; Van der Goot, E.; Halkia, M.; Pouliquen, B.; Belyaeva, J. Sentiment Analysis in the News. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2010), pp. 2216-2220. Valletta, Malta, 19-21 May 2010.
8.     Balahur, A., Kabadjov, M. Steinberger, J. Exploiting Higher-level Semantic Information for the Opinion-oriented Summarization of Blogs. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications, ISSN: 0976-0962, Vol. 1, No. 1-2, pp. 45-59.
9.     Martín, T.; Balahur, A.; Montoyo, A.; Pons, A. Word Sense Disambiguation in Opinion Mining: Pros and Cons. In Journal Research in Computing Science, Special Issue: Natural Language Processing and its Applications,  ISSN: 1870-4069, Vol. 46, pp. 119-130.
10. Martín-Wanton, T.; Pons-Porrata, A.; Montoyo-Guijarro, A.; Balahur, A. Opinion Polarity Detection – Using Word Sense Disambiguation to Determine the Polarity of Opinions. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2010).
11.  Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. Opinion and Generic Question Answering systems: a Performance Analysis. In Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference.
12.  Balahur, A.; Kabadjov, M.;Steinberger, J.; Steinberger, R.; Montoyo, A. Summarizing Opinions in Blog Threads. Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), pp. 606-613, Hong Kong, 3-5 December 2009.
13. Kabadjov, M.; Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E. Sentiment Intensity: Is It a Good Summary Indicator?. Proceedings of the 4th Language Technology Conference LTC, pp. 380-384. Poznan, Poland, 6-8.11.2009.
14. Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. Evaluating Question Answering Systems on Opinión Queries. Proceedings of TSA 2009 (The First  CIKM Workshop on Topic-Sentiment Analysis for Mass Opinion Measurement).
15. Balahur, A.; Steinberger, R. Rethinking Opinion Mining in Newspaper Articles: from Theory to Practice and Back. Proceedings of the first workshop on Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis (WOMSA 2009)
16. Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. A comparative study of Open Domain and Opinion Question Answering Systems for Factual and Opinionated Queries.RANLP 2009.
17. Balahur, A.; Lloret, E.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Palomar, M; Martínez-Barco, P. Summarizing Threads in Blogs Using Opinion Polarity. Proceedings of the EETTs 2009 Workshop, satellite to the RANLP 2009 Conference.
18. Balahur, A.; Steinberger, R.; van der Goot, E.; Pouliquen, B.; Kabadjov, M. Opinion Mining from Newspaper Quotations. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Analysis and Processing of Web News Content, 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence held in conjunction with IAT’09, September 2009, Milan, Italy
19. Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. A Comparative Study of Open Domain and Opinion Question Answering Systems for Factual and Opinionated Queries. In Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2009).
20. Balahur, A.; Montoyo, A. Semantic Approaches to Fine and Coarse-Grained Feature-Based Opinion Mining. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2009).
21. Boldrini, E.; Balahur, A., Martínez-Barco, P.; Montoyo, A. EmotiBlog: an Annotation Scheme for Emotion Detection and Analysis in Non-traditional Textual Genres. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN 2009).
22. Lloret, E.; Balahur, A.; Palomar, M.; Montoyo, A. Towards Building a Competitive Opinion Summarization System: Challenges and Keys. In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2009 Student Research Workshop, 2009.
23. Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. Fact Versus Opinion Questions Classification and Answering: Challenges and Keys. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI 2009).
24. Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. Cross Topic Opinion Mining for Real-time Human-Computer Interaction (Application of EmotiBlog – an Annotation Schema for Emotion Detection). In Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2009).
25. Balahur, A.; Kozareva, Z.; Montoyo, A. Determining the Polarity and Source of Opinions Expressed in Political Debates. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing) 2009 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 5449, 2009)
26. Balahur, A.; Montoyo, A. A Semantic Relatedness Approach to Classifying Opinion from Web Reviews. In Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural No.  42, 2009.
27. Balahur, A.; Lloret, E.; Ferrández, O.;Montoyo, A., Palomar, M.; Muñoz, R. The DLSIUAES Team’s Participation in the TAC 2008 Tracks Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference 2008 Workshop, Washington, USA, 2008.
28. Iftene, A.; Balahur, A. A Language Independent Approach for Recognizing Textual Entailment. Research in Computing Science  , Vol: 334, 2008.
29. Balahur, A.; Montoyo, A. Applying a Culture Dependent Emotion Triggers Database for Text Valence and Emotion Classification. In Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008.
30. Balahur, A.; Montoyo, A. Building a Recommender System Using Community Level Social Filtering. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Natural Language and Cognitive Science, Barcelona, Spain, 2008.
31. Balahur, A.; Montoyo, A. Definición de disparador de emoción asociado a la cultura y aplicación a la clasificación de la valencia y de la emoción en textos. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural  , Vol: 40  , Num: 40, 2008.