Special section: processing of semantic information

 

Análisis de Opiniones con Ontologías

 

Opinion Mining using Ontolgies

 

Enrique Vallés Balaguer¹, Paolo Rosso¹, Angela Locoro² y Viviana Mascardi²

 

¹ NLE Lab – ELiRF, DSIC, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, España (e–mail: evalles@dsic.upv.es, prosso@dsic.upv.es).

² DISI, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italia (e–mail: angela.locoro@unige.it, viviana.mascardi@unige.it).

 

Manuscrito recibido el 24 de febrero del 2010.
Manuscrito aceptado para su publicación el 31 de mayo del 2010.

 

Resumen

En este artículo presentamos un trabajo sobre análisis de opiniones llevado a cabo gracias a un enfoque innovador basado en fusión de ontologías. El objetivo de este trabajo es permitir que dos empresas puedan intercambiar y compartir los resultados de los análisis de las opiniones de sus productos y servicios.

Palabras clave: Minería de opiniones, mapeo y fusión de ontologías, Web 2.0, Empresa 2.0.

 

Abstract

In this paper we present a work dealing with opinion analysis carried out thanks to an innovative approach based on ontology matching. The aim of this work is to allow two enterprises to share and merge the results of opinion analyses on their own products and services.

Key words: Opinion mining, ontology matching and merging, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0.

 

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AGRADECIMIENTOS

El trabajo de los dos primeros autores se engloba dentro del proyecto del MICINN: TEXT–ENTERPRISE 2.0: Técnicas de Comprensión de textos aplicadas á las necesidades de la Empresa 2.0 (TIN2009–13391–C04–03). El trabajo ha sido el resultado de una estancia de Erasmus–Master de 4 meses en la Universidad de Genova.

 

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