Product Mention

A product mention is a singleton entity mention that refers to a organization's product.

• AKA: Product Entity Mention.
• Context:
  • It can range from being an Explicit Product Mention (such as a product term mention) to being an Implicit Product Mention (such as a pronomial product mention).
  • It can be in a Semantic Relation with: a Product Feature Mention, a Product Category Mention, Product Creating Company.
  • It can be recognized by a Named Entity Recognition System that is solving a Product Named Entity Recognition Task.
  • It can range from being an Annotated Product Mention to being an Unannotated Product Mention.
  • It can be disambiguated by a Product Mention Normalization System that is solving a Product Mention Normalization Task.
  • It can be a: CE Product Mention, Auto Product Mention, Fashion Product Mention, ...
  • ...
• Example(s):
  • {16G iPhone 4S} in the text: “Let's show off your 16G iPhone 4S during Cape of Good Hope's 4th annual ex-notaries public convention.”
  • {30GB OCZ Solid Series SATA II 2.5" SSD, and ICH10R controller} in the text: “Just a very basic question, would it be alright to put 2 x 30GB OCZ Solid Series SATA II 2.5" SSD into RAID0 on an ICH10R controller?” from http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47184
  • {Samsung i900 Omnia 16gb, the phone, this phone, and It} in the text: “I imported my Samsung i900 Omnia 16gb - I like the phone it has so many features wifi, blutooth, word pad, excel, 5mp camera to name a few i900 has a 3.2" screen which is not used very well as the size of the font used in text messages in so tiny its nearly impossible to see it which defeats the object of having a large screen. It can perform any type of file i have thrown at it and even downloaded stardust movie onto it and can watch it full screen. Overall if you got good eye sight to read tiny print and don't mind charging it every two days this phone is very good.” from http://www.reviewcentre.com/review401108.html
  • {Centrino, Centrino 2, and Toshiba Satellite A300-02C} in the text: “As we near the end of our wait for AMD's long overdue response to Centrino, Intel has fired another salvo; Centrino 2. This Toshiba Satellite A300-02C is my first notebook using Intel's latest bits and I am giddy like a school girl to test it out.” from http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4598
  • 32GB Lexar microSDHC Class 10 card; Giga-Byte GA-990FXA-UD3; JBL L150; JVC RS40; Jabra BT3030; Kenwood-KIV-701.
  • iPhone 4S, iPad2, iPad 2, iPod Touch, Modern Warfare 3, Kindle Fire, Kindle Cloud Reader, Xbox 360.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Product Category Mention or a Product Feature Mention.
  • a Product Data Record.
  • a Service Mention.
  • an Organization Mention.
  • a Person Mention, such as “I like the phone …”
  • a Gene Product Mention.
• See: Sentiment Analysis, Product Review, Product Catalog.

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References

2010

• (OpenCalais, 2010) ⇒ http://www.opencalais.com/documentation/calais-web-service-api/api-metadata/entity-index-and-definitions#product
  • This entity type extracts references to products. The product type is extracted for the following product types: drug products, electronic products, car models, aircraft models, and weapons.
  • Attributes:
    • Product: Name of the product.
    • ProductType: Currently the only extracted product types are: Drug, Car, Aircraft, Electronics, Weapon

      Note: For product types other than these, ProductType=Other.

2008

• (Ding et al., 2008) ⇒ Xiaowen Ding, Bing Liu, and Philip S. Yu. (2008). “A Holistic Lexicon-based Approach to Opinion Mining.” In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining (WSDM 2008). doi:10.1145/1341531.1341561

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