iTac: Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis using Sentiment Trees and Dictionaries

This paper describes our approach for the fourth task of the SemEval 2014 challenge: Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis. Our system is designed to solve all four subtasks: (i) identifying aspect terms, (ii) determining the polarity of an aspect term, (iii) detecting aspect categories, and (iv) determining the polarity of a predefined aspect category. Our system is based on the Stanford sentiment tree.