[PDF][PDF] The sentimental factor: Improving review classification via human-provided information

P Beineke, T Hastie… - Proceedings of the 42nd …, 2004 - aclanthology.org
P Beineke, T Hastie, S Vaithyanathan
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for …, 2004aclanthology.org
Sentiment classification is the task of labeling a review document according to the polarity of
its prevailing opinion (favorable or unfavorable). In approaching this problem, a model
builder often has three sources of information available: a small collection of labeled
documents, a large collection of unlabeled documents, and human understanding of
language. Ideally, a learning method will utilize all three sources. To accomplish this goal,
we generalize an existing procedure that uses the latter two. We extend this procedure by re …
Abstract
Sentiment classification is the task of labeling a review document according to the polarity of its prevailing opinion (favorable or unfavorable). In approaching this problem, a model builder often has three sources of information available: a small collection of labeled documents, a large collection of unlabeled documents, and human understanding of language. Ideally, a learning method will utilize all three sources. To accomplish this goal, we generalize an existing procedure that uses the latter two. We extend this procedure by re-interpreting it as a Naive Bayes model for document sentiment. Viewed as such, it can also be seen to extract a pair of derived features that are linearly combined to predict sentiment. This perspective allows us to improve upon previous methods, primarily through two strategies: incorporating additional derived features into the model and, where possible, using labeled data to estimate their relative influence.
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