SentiTFIDF – Sentiment Classification using Relative Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency

Kranti Ghag,Ketan Shah

doi:10.14569/ijacsa.2014.050206

Abstract

Sentiment Classification refers to the computational techniques for classifying whether the sentiments of text are positive or negative. Statistical Techniques based on Term Presence and Term Frequency, using Support Vector Machine are popularly used for Sentiment Classification. This paper presents an approach for classifying a term as positive or negative based on its proportional frequency count distribution and proportional presence count distribution across positively tagged documents in comparison with negatively tagged documents. Our approach is based on term weighting techniques that are used for information retrieval and sentiment classification. It differs significantly from these traditional methods due to our model of logarithmic differential term frequency and term presence distribution for sentiment classification. Terms with nearly equal distribution in positively tagged documents and negatively tagged documents were classified as a Senti-stop-word and discarded. The proportional distribution of a term to be classified as Senti-stop-word was determined experimentally. We evaluated the SentiTFIDF model by comparing it with state of art techniques for sentiment classification using the movie dataset.

Highlights

The web which is massively increasing resource of information has changed from read only to read write
Our approach is based on traditional techniques of Information Retrieval, we examine whether addressing sentiment classification as special case of information retrieval can improve classification accuracy
We focus on proportional frequency count distribution and proportional presence count distribution whereas traditional approaches such as delta TFIDF and other term weighting techniques rely on combination of overall frequency count of term and proportional presence count distribution

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Introduction

The web which is massively increasing resource of information has changed from read only to read write. Organizations provide opportunity to the user to express their views on the products, decisions and news that are released [1]. Users can express their emotions as well can comment on the earlier user sentiments. Large amount of sentiment data is generated by various users for different features of products and services. Processing this sentiment data needs to be handled systematically

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