Distinguishing Fact from Opinion and Events from Meta-Events,
Abstract
A major problem in automatically analyzing the text of military messages in order to synthesize data base elements is separating fact from opinion, i.e., identifying factual statements versus evaluate commentary such as degree of belief or confidence in the parameters of a particular event, comparative evaluations of entitles and events, predictions of future events, etc. This paper describes a model which accounts for the range of factual to evaluative information in the message traffic, and discusses a means for representing such information in the context of an experimental system for automated data base generation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADP001167
Entities
People
- Christine A . Montgomery