Unsupervised Twitter Sentiment Classification

Mihaela Dinsoreanu, Andrei Bacu

2014

Abstract

Sentiment classification is not a new topic but data sources having different characteristics require customized methods to exploit the hidden existing semantic while minimizing the noise and irrelevant information. Twitter represents a huge pool of data having specific features. We propose therefore an unsupervised, domain-independent approach, for sentiment classification on Twitter. The proposed approach integrates NLP techniques, Word Sense Disambiguation and unsupervised rule-based classification. The method is able to differentiate between positive, negative, and objective (neutral) polarities for every word, given the context in which it occurs. Finally, the overall tweet polarity decision is taken by our proposed rule-based classifier. We performed a comparative evaluation of our method on four public datasets specialized for this task and the experimental results obtained are very good compared to other state-of-the-art methods, considering that our classifier does not use any training corpus.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Dinsoreanu M. and Bacu A. (2014). Unsupervised Twitter Sentiment Classification . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-050-5, pages 220-227. DOI: 10.5220/0005079002200227

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis14,
author={Mihaela Dinsoreanu and Andrei Bacu},
title={Unsupervised Twitter Sentiment Classification},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={220-227},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005079002200227},
isbn={978-989-758-050-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2014)
TI - Unsupervised Twitter Sentiment Classification
SN - 978-989-758-050-5
AU - Dinsoreanu M.
AU - Bacu A.
PY - 2014
SP - 220
EP - 227
DO - 10.5220/0005079002200227