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      Effectiveness of simple linguistic processing in automatic sentiment classification of product reviews

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      Author
      Na, Jin-Cheon
      Sui, Haiyang
      Khoo, Christopher S. G.
      Chan, Syin
      Zhou, Yunyun
      Date of Issue
      2004
      Conference Name
      International ISKO Conference (8th : 2004 : London)
      School
      Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
      Version
      Accepted version
      Abstract
      This paper reports a study in automatic sentiment classification, i.e., automatically classifying documents as expressing positive or negative sentiments/opinions. The study investigates the effectiveness of using SVM (Support Vector Machine) on various text features to classify product reviews into recommended (positive sentiment) and not recommended (negative sentiment). Compared with traditional topical classification, it was hypothesized that syntactic and semantic processing of text would be more important for sentiment classification. In the first part of this study, several different approaches, unigrams (individual words), selected words (such as verb, adjective, and adverb), and words labeled with part-of-speech tags were investigated. A sample of 1,800 various product reviews was retrieved from Review Centre (www.reviewcentre.com) for the study. 1,200 reviews were used for training, and 600 for testing. Using SVM, the baseline unigram approach obtained an accuracy rate of around 76%. The use of selected words obtained a marginally better result of 77.33%. Error analysis suggests various approaches for improving classification accuracy: use of negation phrase, making inference from superficial words, and solving the problem of comments on parts. The second part of the study that is in progress investigates the use of negation phrase through simple linguistic processing to improve classification accuracy. This approach increased the accuracy rate up to 79.33%.
      Subject
      Communication and Information
      Type
      Conference Paper
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      © 2004 International ISKO Conference. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Proceedings of the Eighth International ISKO Conference, International ISKO Conference. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [URL: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/bibliotheks--informationswissenschaft/advances-in-knowledge-organization/band-9.php].
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