We propose a method for extracting se- mantic orientations of words: desirable or undesirable. Regarding semantic ori- entations as spins of electrons, we use the mean field approximation to compute the approximate probability function of the system instead of the intractable ac- tual probability function. We also pro- pose a criterion for parameter selection on the basis of magnetization. Given only a small number of seed words, the pro- posed method extracts semantic orienta- tions with high accuracy in the exper- iments on English lexicon. The result is comparable to the best value ever re- ported.

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