Study on opinion mining and sentiment analysis of texts and its association with entities and their characteristics

Duration: December 2013 - April 2014
Budget: 95,700 EUR (Budget for Harokopio University: 16,000 euros)
Principal Investigator: Iraklis Varlamis

Palo.gr is a news aggregatio that collects, preserves, organizes and offers news content published by Greek news portal and greek speeking blogs. The program aims in providing to palo the expertise on the extraction of semantic information from news articles and more specifically to export opinion and emotion for entities (persons, organizations, etc.) and their characteristics.
The Department of Informatics and Telematics is a subcontractor of palo.gr and its role is to propose solutions for improving automatic news organization and to suggest new ways of presenting news that exploit spatial and temporal information.