Alexandra Balahur

European Commission
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Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC)

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21027 Ispra (VA), Italy

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Publications (Please contact the author for papers not available here) (Look on Google Scholar)

Theses

• Balahur Dobrescu Alexandra (2011). Methods and Resources for Sentiment Analysis in Multilingual Documents of Different Text Types , Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, ISBN: 978-84-694-8360-2 (Doctoral Thesis)
• Balahur Dobrescu Alexandra (2009). Sentiment Analysis Applied to Multilingual Multigenre Texts , Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante (Advanced Studies Dissertation)

Book chapters

• Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P. OpAL: A System for Mining Opinion from Text for Business Applications.Business Intelligence Applications and the Web: Models, Systems and Technologies. IGI Global, 2012. 147-177. Web. 27 Jan. 2012. doi:10.4018/978-1-61350-038-5.ch007

Journal Articles (selected)

• Balahur, A.; Hermida, J.M.; Montoyo, A. Detecting Implicit Expressions of Sentiment in Text Based on Commonsense Knowledge. Journal: Journal of Decision Support Systems – Special Issue on “Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis” (Elsevier) - forthcoming
• Balahur, A.; Hermida J.M.; Montoyo, A. Building and Exploiting EmotiNet: a Knowledge Base for Emotion Detection Based on the Appraisal Theory Model. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/T-AFFC.2011.33
• Balahur, A.; Kabadjov, M.; Steinberger, J.; Steinberger, R.; Montoyo, A. Challenges and Solutions in the Opinion Summarization of User-Generated Contents. Intelligent Information Systems (Springer). DOI: 10.1007/s10844-011-0194-z
• Boldrini, E.; Balahur, A.; Martinez-Barco, P.; Montoyo, A. Using EmotiBlog to Annotate and Analyse Subjectivity in the New Textual Genres. Journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Springer) - forthcoming
• Lloret, E.; Balahur, A.; Gomez, J.M.; Montoyo, A.; Palomar, M. Towards a Unified Framework for Opinion Retrieval, Mining and Summarization. Intelligent Information Systems (Springer) - forthcoming.
• 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

Conference and Workshop Proceedings

• Balahur, A.; Hermida, J.M.; Montoyo, A. Detecting Emotions in Social Affective Situations Using the EmotiNet Knowledge Base. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Neural Networks - ISNN (3) 2011: 611-620.


• Balahur, A.; Hermida, J.M.; Montoyo, A.; Muñoz, R. EmotiNet: A Knowledge Base for Emotion Detection in Text Built on the Appraisal Theories.In Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2011). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6716, pp. 27-39.


• Balahur, A.; Hermida, J.M.; Montoyo, A. Detecting Implicit Expressions of Sentiment in Text Based on Commonsense Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2.011), Satellite workshop to ACL-HLT 2011, Portland, Oregon.


• Lloret, E.; Balahur, A.; Gomez, J.M.; Montoyo, A.; Palomar, M. Towards a Unified Approach for Opinion Question Answering and Summarization.In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2.011), Satellite workshop to ACL-HLT 2011, Portland, Oregon.


• 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).


• Wiegand, M.; Balahur, A., Roth, B.; Klakow, D., Montoyo, A.A Survey on the Role of Negation in Sentiment Analysis. InProceedings of the Workshop on Negation and Speculation in Natural Language Processing, NeSp-NLP 2010.


• 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.


• 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 4^th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV), satellite workshop to ACL 2010.


• 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.


• Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.; Montoyo, A.; Martínez-Barco, P.Opinion Question Answering:Towards a Unified Approach. In Proceedings of the 19^th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010).


• 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 7^th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2010), pp. 2216-2220. Valletta, Malta, 19-21 May 2010.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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 2^nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2010).


• 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.


• Balahur, A.; Kabadjov, M.;Steinberger, J.; Steinberger, R.; Montoyo, A. Summarizing Opinions in Blog Threads. Proceedings of the 23rdPacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), pp. 606-613, Hong Kong, 3-5 December 2009.


• Kabadjov, M.; Balahur, A.; Boldrini, E.Sentiment Intensity: Is It a Good Summary Indicator?. Proceedings of the 4th Language Technology ConferenceLTC, pp. 380-384. Poznan, Poland, 6-8.11.2009.


• 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).


• 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)


• 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.


• 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.


• 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


• 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).


• 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).


• Balahur, A.; Montoyo, A.Semantic Approaches to Fine and Coarse-Grained Feature-Based Opinion Mining. In Proceedings of the 14^thInternational Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2009).


• 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 5^thInternational Conference on Data Mining (DMIN 2009).


• 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.


• 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).


• 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).


• Balahur, A.; Kozareva, Z.; Montoyo, A.Determining the Polarity and Source of Opinions Expressed in Political Debates. In Proceedings of the 10^thInternational Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing) 2009 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 5449, 2009)


• Balahur, A.; Montoyo, A.A Semantic Relatedness Approach to Classifying Opinion from Web Reviews.In Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural No. 42, 2009.


• 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.


• Iftene, A.; Balahur, A.A Language Independent Approach for Recognizing Textual Entailment. Research in Computing Science , Vol: 334, 2008.
  
• 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.


• 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.


• 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.