Karo Moilanen

DPhil Student
Wolfson College

Contact Details

Oxford University Computing Laboratory
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. Computationally, I aim at combining the above with I'm a member of The Oxford Computational Linguistics Group, and am supervised by Prof Stephen Pulman.
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Publications

Moilanen, Karo and Pulman, Stephen. (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] [Abstract] [BIB]

Moilanen, Karo and Pulman, Stephen. (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]

Moilanen, Karo and Pulman, Stephen. (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]

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News

Michaelmas Term, 2009. I'm currently working 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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