This paper presents the design and construction of a Chinese opinion corpus. Based on the
observation on the characteristics of opinion expression in Chinese online product reviews,
which is quite different from in the formal texts such as news, an annotation framework is
proposed to guide the construction of an opinion corpus based on online product reviews.
The opinionated sentences are manually identified from the review text. Furthermore, for
each comment in the opinionated sentences, its 13 describing elements are annotated …