Sentiment Resources Research Articles

Hypothesis testing based on observation from Thai sentiment classification

This work focuses on error analyzes from the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification on Thai children stories at a sentence level. The construction of the Sentiment Term Tagging System (STTS) program allows the researchers to make observations and hypothesize around the areas where most anomalies occur. Three hypotheses, based on terms sentiment chosen for SVM predictions, are evidently proved to hold. In addition, a number of ways to improve the Thai sentiment classification research are suggested, including considerations to add negation into the process, add weighing scheme for different part-of-speech, disambiguate word senses, and update the Thai sentiment resource.

Sentiment/subjectivity analysis survey for languages other than English

Subjective and sentiment analysis have gained considerable attention recently. Most of the resources and systems built so far are done for English. The need for designing systems for other languages is increasing. This paper surveys different ways used for building systems for subjective and sentiment analysis for languages other than English. There are three different types of systems used for building these systems. The first (and the best) one is the language-specific systems. The second type of systems involves reusing or transferring sentiment resources from English to the target language. The third type of methods is based on using language-independent methods. The paper presents a separate section devoted to Arabic sentiment analysis.

Sentiment analysis of Thai children stories

Sentiment Text Tagging System (STTS) with Thai sentiment resource has been developed and used to tag emotions directly to words and sentences in Thai children stories. The Thai sentiment resource, developed from SenticNet2 resource, groups emotions into four independent but concomitant dimensions: pleasantness, attention, sensitivity and aptitude. The measure of each dimension is called a sentic value of that dimension. Thai sentiment resource stores each word's sentic value and polarity value, a value calculated from the sentic value, in the form of floating point number. The resource was constructed from bi-directional translation of 14,244 English terms in SenticNet2 into 16,584 Thai terms. The main purpose of this study was to implement a sentiment analysis of Thai children stories system with support vector machine using a set of proposed discriminating features for classifying emotions. It was found that the system can achieve 75.67 % of accuracy.

How Translation Alters Sentiment

Sentiment analysis research has predominantly been on English texts. Thus there exist many sentiment resources for English, but less so for other languages. Approaches to improve sentiment analysis in a resource-poor focus language include: (a) translate the focus language text into a resource-rich language such as English, and apply a powerful English sentiment analysis system on the text, and (b) translate resources such as sentiment labeled corpora and sentiment lexicons from English into the focus language, and use them as additional resources in the focus-language sentiment analysis system. In this paper we systematically examine both options. We use Arabic social media posts as stand-in for the focus language text. We show that sentiment analysis of English translations of Arabic texts produces competitive results, w.r.t. Arabic sentiment analysis. We show that Arabic sentiment analysis systems benefit from the use of automatically translated English sentiment lexicons. We also conduct manual annotation studies to examine why the sentiment of a translation is different from the sentiment of the source word or text. This is especially relevant for building better automatic translation systems. In the process, we create a state-of-the-art Arabic sentiment analysis system, a new dialectal Arabic sentiment lexicon, and the first Arabic-English parallel corpus that is independently annotated for sentiment by Arabic and English speakers.

How translation alters sentiment

Sentiment analysis research has predominantly been on English texts. Thus there exist many sentiment resources for English, but less so for other languages. Approaches to improve sentiment analysis...

Combination of active learning and self-training for cross-lingual sentiment classification with density analysis of unlabelled samples

In recent years, research in sentiment classification has received considerable attention by natural language processing researchers. Annotated sentiment corpora are the most important resources used in sentiment classification. However, since most recent research works in this field have focused on the English language, there are accordingly not enough annotated sentiment resources in other languages. Manual construction of reliable annotated sentiment corpora for a new language is a labour-intensive and time-consuming task. Projection of sentiment corpus from one language into another language is a natural solution used in cross-lingual sentiment classification. Automatic machine translation services are the most commonly tools used to directly project information from one language into another. However, since term distribution across languages may be different due to variations in linguistic terms and writing styles, cross-lingual methods cannot reach the performance of monolingual methods. In this paper, a novel learning model is proposed based on the combination of uncertainty-based active learning and semi-supervised self-training approaches to incorporate unlabelled sentiment documents from the target language in order to improve the performance of cross-lingual methods. Further, in this model, the density measures of unlabelled examples are considered in active learning part in order to avoid outlier selection. The empirical evaluation on book review datasets in three different languages shows that the proposed model can significantly improve the performance of cross-lingual sentiment classification in comparison with other existing and baseline methods.

Cross-lingual sentiment classification using multiple source languages in multi-view semi-supervised learning

Cross-lingual sentiment classification aims to utilize annotated sentiment resources in one language (typically English) for sentiment classification of text documents in another language. Most existing research works rely on automatic machine translation services to directly project information from one language to another. However, due to the existence of differing linguistic terms and writing styles between different languages, translated data cannot cover all vocabularies which exist in the original data. Further, different term distribution between translated data and original data can lead to low performance in cross-lingual sentiment classification. To overcome these problems, we propose a new model which uses labelled data from multiple source languages in a multi-view semi-supervised learning approach so as to incorporate unlabelled data from the target language into the learning process. The proposed model was applied to book review datasets in four different languages. Experiments have shown that our model can effectively improve the cross-lingual sentiment classification performance in comparison with some baseline methods.

Baby Ghosts: Child Spirits and Contemporary Conceptions of Childhood in Thailand

AbstractThe currently popular practice of propitiating, or ‘adopting’, child spirits in Thailand reveals an ambivalent attitude towards childhood. According to Buddhist scholars on childhood, Buddhist conceptions of children do not differentiate children in significant ways from adults in terms of their relative purity or innocence, as both children and adults possess countless lifetimes of karma; children are thus agentive beings, although not yet fully realised as adults. The child ghosts reflect the complex, competing conceptions of childhood, where they are both valuable resources to be deployed in the assistance of their families, and vulnerable beings in need of adult caretaking. Child ghosts are markers of both material and sentimental resources for their adoptive parents, or ‘guardians’. This article explores representations of child ghosts in popular media, and investigates child ghost propitiation practices through interviews with child ghost guardians. In addition, an overview is provided of the various categories of child ghosts, including kumanthong, kuman-thep, kuman-phrai, luk-krok, and rak-yom.

Sentiment analysis for Chinese reviews of movies in multi-genre based on morpheme-based features and collocations

The application of sentiment analysis, also known as opinion mining, is more difficult in Chinese than in Indo-European languages, due to the compounding nature of Chinese words and phrases, and relatively lack of reliable resources in Chinese. This study used seed words, Chinese morphemes, which are mono-syllabic characters that function as individual words or be combined to create Chinese words and phrases, to classify movie reviews found on Yahoo! Taiwan. We utilized higher Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) collocations, which consist of selected morpheme-level compounded features to build classifiers. The contributions of this study include the following: (Bird 2006) proposing a method of generating domain-dependent Chinese morphemes directly from large data set without any predefined sentimental resources; (Bradley and Lang 1999) building morpheme-based classifiers applicable in various movie genres, and shown to produce better results than other classifiers based on keywords (NTUSD and HowNet) or feature selection (TFIDF); (Church and Hanks in Computational linguistics, 16(1), 22-29 1990) identifying compounds that have different semantic polarities depending on contexts.

Bi-view semi-supervised active learning for cross-lingual sentiment classification

Recently, sentiment classification has received considerable attention within the natural language processing research community. However, since most recent works regarding sentiment classification have been done in the English language, there are accordingly not enough sentiment resources in other languages. Manual construction of reliable sentiment resources is a very difficult and time-consuming task. Cross-lingual sentiment classification aims to utilize annotated sentiment resources in one language (typically English) for sentiment classification of text documents in another language. Most existing research works rely on automatic machine translation services to directly project information from one language to another. However, different term distribution between original and translated text documents and translation errors are two main problems faced in the case of using only machine translation. To overcome these problems, we propose a novel learning model based on active learning and semi-supervised co-training to incorporate unlabelled data from the target language into the learning process in a bi-view framework. This model attempts to enrich training data by adding the most confident automatically-labelled examples, as well as a few of the most informative manually-labelled examples from unlabelled data in an iterative process. Further, in this model, we consider the density of unlabelled data so as to select more representative unlabelled examples in order to avoid outlier selection in active learning. The proposed model was applied to book review datasets in three different languages. Experiments showed that our model can effectively improve the cross-lingual sentiment classification performance and reduce labelling efforts in comparison with some baseline methods.

심리학적 감정과 소셜 웹 자료를 이용한 감성의 실증적 분류

소셜 웹이 확산되면서 오피니언 마이닝 혹은 감성 분석 연구가 주목을 받고 있다. 감성 분석을 위해서는 감성을 판별하기 위한 감성자원이 제공되어야 한다. 기존 감성 분석에서는 감성의 극성에 대한 강도를 표현하는 방법으로 리소스를 구축하고 이를 통하여 의견의 극성을 결정하였다. 본 논문에서는 의견의 극성뿐만 아니라 긍/부정의 근거가 되는 감성의 카테고리를 구성하고자 한다. 본 논문에서는 합리적인 분류를 위하여 심리학적 감정들을 초기 감성으로 정의한다. 그리고 실제로 소셜 웹에서 사용되는 감성의 분포를 얻기 위하여 소셜 웹의 텍스트를 분석하여 감성 정보를 추출한다. 추출한 감성 정보를 이용하여 초기 감성들을 재분류함으로써 소셜 웹을 위한 감성 카테고리를 구성한다. 본 논문에서는 이 방법을 통하여 23개의 감성 카테고리를 제시한다. The studies of opinion mining or sentiment analysis have been the focus with social web proliferation. Sentiment analysis requires sentiment resources to decide its polarity. In the existing sentiment analysis, they have been built resources designed with intensity of sentiment polarity and decided polarity of opinion using the ones. In this paper, I will present sentiment categories for not only polarity of opinion but also the basis of positive/negative opinion. I will define psychological emotions to primary sentiments for the reasonable classification. And I will extract the informations of sentiment from social web texts for the actual distribution of sentiments in social web. Re-classifying primary sentiments based on extracted sentiment information, I will organize sentiment categories for the social web. In this paper, I will present 23 categories of sentiment by using proposed method.

Bilingual Co-Training for Sentiment Classification of Chinese Product Reviews

The lack of reliable Chinese sentiment resources limits research progress on Chinese sentiment classification. However, there are many freely available English sentiment resources on the Web. This article focuses on the problem of cross-lingual sentiment classification, which leverages only available English resources for Chinese sentiment classification. We first investigate several basic methods (including lexicon-based methods and corpus-based methods) for cross-lingual sentiment classification by simply leveraging machine translation services to eliminate the language gap, and then propose a bilingual co-training approach to make use of both the English view and the Chinese view based on additional unlabeled Chinese data. Experimental results on two test sets show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, which can outperform basic methods and transductive methods.

An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Sentiment Classification of Chinese Reviews

This paper is an empirical study of unsupervised sentiment classification of Chinese reviews. The focus is on exploring the ways to improve the performance of the unsupervised sentiment classification based on limited existing sentiment resources in Chinese. On the one hand, all available Chinese sentiment lexicons — individual and combined — are evaluated under our proposed framework. On the other hand, the domain dependent sentiment noise words are identified and removed using unlabeled data, to improve the classification performance. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such attempt. Experiments have been conducted on three open datasets in two domains, and the results show that the proposed algorithm for sentiment noise words removal can improve the classification performance significantly.