A proposed scheme for sentiment analysis

Kybernetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 957-984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajjad Tofighy ◽  
Seyed Mostafa Fakhrahmad

Purpose This paper aims to propose a statistical and context-aware feature reduction algorithm that improves sentiment classification accuracy. Classification of reviews with different granularities in two classes of reviews with negative and positive polarities is among the objectives of sentiment analysis. One of the major issues in sentiment analysis is feature engineering while it severely affects time complexity and accuracy of sentiment classification. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, a feature reduction method is proposed that uses context-based knowledge as well as synset statistical knowledge. To do so, one-dimensional presentation proposed for SentiWordNet calculates statistical knowledge that involves polarity concentration and variation tendency for each synset. Feature reduction involves two phases. In the first phase, features that combine semantic and statistical similarity conditions are put in the same cluster. In the second phase, features are ranked and then the features which are given lower ranks are eliminated. The experiments are conducted by support vector machine (SVM), naive Bayes (NB), decision tree (DT) and k-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithms to classify the vectors of the unigram and bigram features in two classes of positive or negative sentiments. Findings The results showed that the applied clustering algorithm reduces SentiWordNet synset to less than half which reduced the size of the feature vector by less than half. In addition, the accuracy of sentiment classification is improved by at least 1.5 per cent. Originality/value The presented feature reduction method is the first use of the synset clustering for feature reduction. In this paper features reduction algorithm, first aggregates the similar features into clusters then eliminates unsatisfactory cluster.

Author(s):  
Midde Venkateswarlu Naik ◽  
D. Vasumathi ◽  
A.P. Siva Kumar

Aims: The proposed research work is on an evolutionary enhanced method for sentiment or emotion classification on unstructured review text in the big data field. The sentiment analysis plays a vital role for current generation of people for extracting valid decision points about any aspect such as movie ratings, education institute or politics ratings, etc. The proposed hybrid approach combined the optimal feature selection using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and sentiment classification through Support Vector Machine (SVM). The current approach performance is evaluated with statistical measures, such as precision, recall, sensitivity, specificity, and was compared with the existing approaches. The earlier authors have achieved an accuracy of sentiment classifier in the English text up to 94% as of now. In the proposed scheme, an average accuracy of sentiment classifier on distinguishing datasets outperformed as 99% by tuning various parameters of SVM, such as constant c value and kernel gamma value in association with PSO optimization technique. The proposed method utilized three datasets, such as airline sentiment data, weather, and global warming datasets, that are publically available. The current experiment produced results that are trained and tested based on 10- Fold Cross-Validations (FCV) and confusion matrix for predicting sentiment classifier accuracy. Background: The sentiment analysis plays a vital role for current generation people for extracting valid decisions about any aspect such as movie rating, education institute or even politics ratings, etc. Sentiment Analysis (SA) or opinion mining has become fascinated scientifically as a research domain for the present environment. The key area is sentiment classification on semi-structured or unstructured data in distinguish languages, which has become a major research aspect. User-Generated Content [UGC] from distinguishing sources has been hiked significantly with rapid growth in a web environment. The huge user-generated data over social media provides substantial value for discovering hidden knowledge or correlations, patterns, and trends or sentiment extraction about any specific entity. SA is a computational analysis to determine the actual opinion of an entity which is expressed in terms of text. SA is also called as computation of emotional polarity expressed over social media as natural text in miscellaneous languages. Usually, the automatic superlative sentiment classifier model depends on feature selection and classification algorithms. Methods: The proposed work used Support vector machine as classification technique and particle swarm optimization technique as feature selection purpose. In this methodology, we tune various permutations and combination parameters in order to obtain expected desired results with kernel and without kernel technique for sentiment classification on three datasets, including airline, global warming, weather sentiment datasets, that are freely hosted for research practices. Results: In the proposed scheme, The proposed method has outperformed with 99.2% of average accuracy to classify the sentiment on different datasets, among other machine learning techniques. The attained high accuracy in classifying sentiment or opinion about review text proves superior effectiveness over existing sentiment classifiers. The current experiment produced results that are trained and tested based on 10- Fold Cross-Validations (FCV) and confusion matrix for predicting sentiment classifier accuracy. Conclusion: The objective of the research issue sentiment classifier accuracy has been hiked with the help of Kernel-based Support Vector Machine (SVM) based on parameter optimization. The optimal feature selection to classify sentiment or opinion towards review documents has been determined with the help of a particle swarm optimization approach. The proposed method utilized three datasets to simulate the results, such as airline sentiment data, weather sentiment data, and global warming data that are freely available datasets.


Author(s):  
Jalel Akaichi

In this work, we focus on the application of text mining and sentiment analysis techniques for analyzing Tunisian users' statuses updates on Facebook. We aim to extract useful information, about their sentiment and behavior, especially during the “Arabic spring” era. To achieve this task, we describe a method for sentiment analysis using Support Vector Machine and Naïve Bayes algorithms, and applying a combination of more than two features. The output of this work consists, on one hand, on the construction of a sentiment lexicon based on the Emoticons and Acronyms' lexicons that we developed based on the extracted statuses updates; and on the other hand, it consists on the realization of detailed comparative experiments between the above algorithms by creating a training model for sentiment classification.


2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-169
Author(s):  
Chihli Hung ◽  
You-Xin Cao

Purpose This paper aims to propose a novel approach which integrates collocations and domain concepts for Chinese cosmetic word of mouth (WOM) sentiment classification. Most sentiment analysis works by collecting sentiment scores from each unigram or bigram. However, not every unigram or bigram in a WOM document contains sentiments. Chinese collocations consist of the main sentiments of WOM. This paper reduces the complexity of the document dimensionality and makes an improvement for sentiment classification. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds two contextual lexicons for feature words and sentiment words, respectively. Based on these contextual lexicons, this paper uses the techniques of associated rules and mutual information to build possible Chinese collocation sets. This paper applies preference vector modelling as the vector representation approach to catch the relationship between Chinese collocations and their associated concepts. Findings This paper compares the proposed preference vector models with benchmarks, using three classification techniques (i.e. support vector machine, J48 decision tree and multilayer perceptron). According to the experimental results, the proposed models outperform all benchmarks evaluated by the criterion of accuracy. Originality/value This paper focuses on Chinese collocations and proposes a novel research approach for sentiment classification. The Chinese collocations used in this paper are adaptable to the content and domains. Finally, this paper integrates collocations with the preference vector modelling approach, which not only achieves a better sentiment classification performance for Chinese WOM documents but also avoids the curse of dimensionality.


Author(s):  
Mohd Suhairi Md Suhaimin ◽  
Mohd Hanafi Ahmad Hijazi ◽  
Rayner Alfred ◽  
Frans Coenen

<span>Sentiment analysis is directed at identifying people's opinions, beliefs, views and emotions in the context of the entities and attributes that appear in text. The presence of sarcasm, however, can significantly hamper sentiment analysis. In this paper a sentiment classification framework is presented that incorporates sarcasm detection. The framework was evaluated using a non-linear Support Vector Machine and Malay social media data. The results obtained demonstrated that the proposed sarcasm detection process could successfully detect the presence of sarcasm in that better sentiment classification performance was recorded. A best average F-measure score of 0.905 was recorded using the framework; a significantly better result than when sentiment classification was performed without sarcasm detection.</span>


The main objective of this paper is Analyze the reviews of Social Media Big Data of E-Commerce product’s. And provides helpful result to online shopping customers about the product quality and also provides helpful decision making idea to the business about the customer’s mostly liking and buying products. This covers all features or opinion words, like capitalized words, sequence of repeated letters, emoji, slang words, exclamatory words, intensifiers, modifiers, conjunction words and negation words etc available in tweets. The existing work has considered only two or three features to perform Sentiment Analysis with the machine learning technique Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this proposed work familiar Machine Learning classification models namely Multinomial Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree Classifier, and, Random Forest Classifier are used for sentiment classification. The sentiment classification is used as a decision support system for the customers and also for the business.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuai Luo ◽  
Hongwei Liu ◽  
Ershi Qi

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to recognize and label the faults in wind turbines with a new density-based clustering algorithm, named contour density scanning clustering (CDSC) algorithm.Design/methodology/approachThe algorithm includes four components: (1) computation of neighborhood density, (2) selection of core and noise data, (3) scanning core data and (4) updating clusters. The proposed algorithm considers the relationship between neighborhood data points according to a contour density scanning strategy.FindingsThe first experiment is conducted with artificial data to validate that the proposed CDSC algorithm is suitable for handling data points with arbitrary shapes. The second experiment with industrial gearbox vibration data is carried out to demonstrate that the time complexity and accuracy of the proposed CDSC algorithm in comparison with other conventional clustering algorithms, including k-means, density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise, density peaking clustering, neighborhood grid clustering, support vector clustering, random forest, core fusion-based density peak clustering, AdaBoost and extreme gradient boosting. The third experiment is conducted with an industrial bearing vibration data set to highlight that the CDSC algorithm can automatically track the emerging fault patterns of bearing in wind turbines over time.Originality/valueData points with different densities are clustered using three strategies: direct density reachability, density reachability and density connectivity. A contours density scanning strategy is proposed to determine whether the data points with the same density belong to one cluster. The proposed CDSC algorithm achieves automatically clustering, which means that the trends of the fault pattern could be tracked.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ikhlaas Gurrib ◽  
Firuz Kamalov

Purpose Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) attracted a lot of attention in recent months due to their unprecedented price fluctuations. This paper aims to propose a new method for predicting the direction of BTC price using linear discriminant analysis (LDA) together with sentiment analysis. Design/methodology/approach Concretely, the authors train an LDA-based classifier that uses the current BTC price information and BTC news announcements headlines to forecast the next-day direction of BTC prices. The authors compare the results with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model and random guess approach. The use of BTC price information and news announcements related to crypto enables us to value the importance of these different sources and types of information. Findings Relative to the LDA results, the SVM model was more accurate in predicting BTC next day’s price movement. All models yielded better forecasts of an increase in tomorrow’s BTC price compared to forecasting a decrease in the crypto price. The inclusion of news sentiment resulted in the highest forecast accuracy of 0.585 on the test data, which is superior to a random guess. The LDA (SVM) model with asset specific (news sentiment and asset specific) input features ranked first within their respective model classifiers, suggesting both BTC news sentiment and asset specific are prized factors in predicting tomorrow’s price direction. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to analyze the potential effect of crypto-related sentiment and BTC specific news on BTC’s price using LDA and sentiment analysis.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
pp. 2760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khai Tran ◽  
Thi Phan

Sentiment analysis is an active research area in natural language processing. The task aims at identifying, extracting, and classifying sentiments from user texts in post blogs, product reviews, or social networks. In this paper, the ensemble learning model of sentiment classification is presented, also known as CEM (classifier ensemble model). The model contains various data feature types, including language features, sentiment shifting, and statistical techniques. A deep learning model is adopted with word embedding representation to address explicit, implicit, and abstract sentiment factors in textual data. The experiments conducted based on different real datasets found that our sentiment classification system is better than traditional machine learning techniques, such as Support Vector Machines and other ensemble learning systems, as well as the deep learning model, Long Short-Term Memory network, which has shown state-of-the-art results for sentiment analysis in almost corpuses. Our model’s distinguishing point consists in its effective application to different languages and different domains.


Author(s):  
Hendri Murfi ◽  
Furida Lusi Siagian ◽  
Yudi Satria

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze topics as alternative features for sentiment analysis in Indonesian tweets. Design/methodology/approach Given Indonesian tweets, the processes of sentiment analysis start by extracting features from the tweets. The features are words or topics. The authors use non-negative matrix factorization to extract the topics and apply a support vector machine to classify the tweets into its sentiment class. Findings The authors analyze the accuracy using the two-class and three-class sentiment analysis data sets. Both data sets are about sentiments of candidates for Indonesian presidential election. The experiments show that the standard word features give better accuracies than the topics features for the two-class sentiment analysis. Moreover, the topic features can slightly improve the accuracy of the standard word features. The topic features can also improve the accuracy of the standard word features for the three-class sentiment analysis. Originality/value The standard textual data representation for sentiment analysis using machine learning is bag of word and its extensions mainly created by natural language processing. This paper applies topics as novel features for the machine learning-based sentiment analysis in Indonesian tweets.


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