Karo Moilanen

DPhil Student
Wolfson College

Contact Details

Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Wolfson Building
Parks Road
Oxford, OX1 3QD
UK
(Email:) karo (dot) moilanen at comlab (dot) ox (dot) ac (dot) uk

Research Interests

My research is centered around textual sentiment analysis.

In a computational context, sentiment (or emotion, affect, tone, opinion, private state, speculation, evaluation, appraisal, attitude, attitudinal meaning, bias, colouring, connotation, slanting, stance, amongst others) refers to the enormously rich subjective metacontent that lies beyond the purely objective (or factual, logical, neutral) dimensions of language.

Linguistics. The primary linguistic focus of my research is on Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing. My main computational goal is an exhaustive multi-level sentiment parsing and scoring framework using These open up many exciting possibilities and application areas some of which are exemplified in this high-level research flier.

I'm a member of The Oxford Computational Linguistics Group, and am supervised by Prof Stephen Pulman.

Alongside my main research activities, I have contributed to the development of the Sentiment Analysis component for the Companions project although I'm not formally part of it.
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Publications

As a first author:

Karo Moilanen, Stephen Pulman, and Yue Zhang. (2010). Packed Feelings and Ordered Sentiments: Sentiment Parsing with Quasi-compositional Polarity Sequencing and Compression. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA 2010) at the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010). August 16-20, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 36--43. [PDF] [Abstract] [BIB]

Karo Moilanen and Stephen Pulman. (2009). Multi-entity Sentiment Scoring. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2009). September 14-16, Borovets, Bulgaria. pp. 258--263. [PDF] [PDF] [Abstract] [BIB] [BIB]

Karo Moilanen and Stephen Pulman. (2008). The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown: Morphosyllabic Sentiment Tagging of Unseen Words. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL 2008), Short Papers. June 15-20, Columbus, Ohio. pp. 109--112. [PDF] [Abstract] [BIB]

Karo Moilanen and Stephen Pulman. (2007). Sentiment Composition. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2007). September 27-29, Borovets, Bulgaria. pp. 378--382. [PDF] [Abstract] [BIB]

As a co-author:

Wojciech Gryc and Karo Moilanen. (2010). Leveraging Textual Sentiment Analysis with Social Network Modelling: Sentiment Analysis of Political Blogs in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. In Proceedings of the "From Text to Political Positions" Workshop (T2PP 2010). April 9-10, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. [PDF] [Abstract] [BIB]

Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Nigel Crook, Johan Boye, Stephen Pulman, Karo Moilanen, David Pizzi, Raul Santos de la Camara, and Markku Turunen. (2010). Persuasive Dialogue based on a Narrative Theory: An ECA Implementation. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2010). June 7-10, Copenhagen, Denmark. pp. 250--261. [PDF] [Abstract] [BIB]

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News

Hilary Term, 2011. Thesis defended and passed!
Michaelmas Term, 2010. I am currently waiting for my final viva.
Michaelmas Term, 2009. I worked on an NLP project at Powerset and Microsoft Search Labs as part of an internship sponsored by Microsoft Commerce Search.
October, 2009. An emotional response. Technology Monitor, The Economist.
May, 2009. Talking to computers. Engineering & Technology Magazine, Issue 8.
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Links

My Academia.edu page.
My Oxford Computer Science Dpt. page.
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