Word Embedding and Feature Reduction for Sentiment Analysis Using GA

Abstract

Sentiment analysis (SA), also called as opinion mining is the technique for the removal of opinions of a specific entity or feature from reviews dataset. The opinions of other users help in decision making process of people. This paper studies different methods that are aimed at SA. These approaches vary from semantic based methods, machine learning, neural networks, syntactical methods with each having its own strength. Although hybrid approach also exists where the idea is to combine strengths of two or more methods to increase the accuracy. A framework in which sentiment analysis is done by using word embedding and feature reduction techniques is also proposed. Word embedding is a technique in which low-dimensional vector representation of words is provided. Feature reduction method is used with Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The framework will perform sentiment analysis of user opinions by using a machine learning approach and provides a recommendation system for the ease of decision making for users. The proposed system in this paper has solved the scalability problem and improved the accuracy.