Polarity Classification of Tweets Considering the Poster’s Emotional Change by a Combination of Naive Bayes and LSTM

Abstract

Twitter, as a popular social networking service, is used all over the world, with which users post tweets for various purposes. When users post tweets, an emotion may be behind the messages. As the emotion changes over time, we should better consider their emotional changes and states when analyzing the tweets. In this study, we improve polarity classification by considering the poster’s emotional state. Firstly, we analyze the sentence structure of a tweet and calculate emotion scores for each category by Naive Bayes. Then, the poster’s emotion state is estimated by the emotion scores, and a prediction model of emotional state is created by Long Short Term Memory (LSTM). Based on the predicted emotional state, weights are added to the scores. Finally, polarity classification is performed based on the weighted emotion scores for each category. In our experiments, our approach showed better accuracy than other related studies.