Janyce Wiebe
Janyce Wiebe studied opinions and subjectivity in language, with shared research on annotation, sentiment analysis and question answering. Wiebe and Ellen Riloff published Learning Extraction Patterns for Subjective Expressions in 2003. In 2004 Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, Rebecca Bruce, Matthew Bell and Melanie Martin published Learning Subjective Language. Wiebe studies recognizing and interpreting opinions. Wiebe makes the MPQA opinion corpus, OpinionFinder and a subjectivity lexicon available as research resources. Wiebe gave a multilingual subjectivity tutorial with Mihalcea and Banea in 2012, and a belief and sentiment tutorial with Owen Rambow in 2015. These activities supported the use and study of opinion analysis methods.
- Works
- 145
- Citations
- 19,778
- h-index
- 54
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2003–2004
Learning subjective language
Wiebe and Ellen Riloff published Learning Extraction Patterns for Subjective Expressions in 2003. In 2004 Wiebe, Theresa Wilson, Rebecca Bruce, Matthew Bell and Melanie Martin published Learning Subjective Language. Wiebe studies recognizing and interpreting opinions.
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2005
Annotation and contextual sentiment
With Wilson and Claire Cardie, Wiebe published Annotating Expressions of Opinions and Emotions in Language. With Wilson and Paul Hoffmann, she also published work on recognizing contextual polarity in phrase-level sentiment analysis.
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2006–2007
Word senses and multilingual subjectivity
Wiebe and Rada Mihalcea published Word Sense and Subjectivity in 2006. In 2007 Mihalcea, Carmen Banea and Wiebe published work on learning multilingual subjective language through cross-lingual projections. This sequence extends the research to different word meanings and languages.
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2012–2015
Resources and research teaching
Wiebe makes the MPQA opinion corpus, OpinionFinder and a subjectivity lexicon available as research resources. Wiebe gave a multilingual subjectivity tutorial with Mihalcea and Banea in 2012, and a belief and sentiment tutorial with Owen Rambow in 2015. These activities supported the use and study of opinion analysis methods.
Sources and credits
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