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Table 5: Average results of pair mining for feature class OA and PAC
Feature class Opinion class Hu and Liu’s approach The proposed approach
Precision Recall F-score Precision Recall F-score
OA PRO 0.387 0.738 0.508 0.427 0.693 0.528
CON 0.400 0.533 0.457 0.448 0.450 0.449
PAC PRO 0.457 0.708 0.555 0.595 0.682 0.636
CON 0.305 0.355 0.328 0.401 0.420 0.410
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