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  <Title>Using Emoticons to reduce Dependency in Machine Learning Techniques for Sentiment Classification</Title>
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Acknowledgements
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This research was funded by a UK EPSRC studentship. I am very grateful to Thorsten Joachims, Roy Lipski, Bo Pang and John Trenkle for kindly making their data or software available, and to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. Thanks also to Nick Jacobi for his discussion of the 'ice-axe' effect. Special thanks to my supervisor, John Carroll, for his continued advice and encouragement.</Paragraph>
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