Modelling public sentiment in twitter: Using linguistic patterns to enhance supervised learning

Prerna Chikersal, Soujanya Poria, Erik Cambria, Alexander Gelbukh, Chng Eng Siong

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Abstract

This paper describes a Twitter sentiment analysis system that classifies a tweet as positive or negative based on its overall tweet-level polarity. Supervised learning classifiers often misclassify tweets containing conjunctions such as “but” and conditionals such as “if”, due to their special linguistic characteristics. These classifiers also assign a decision score very close to the decision boundary for a large number tweets, which suggests that they are simply unsure instead of being completely wrong about these tweets. To counter these two challenges, this paper proposes a system that enhances supervised learning for polarity classification by leveraging on linguistic rules and sentic computing resources. The proposed method is evaluated on two publicly available Twitter corpora to illustrate its effectiveness.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 16th International Conference, CICLing 2015, Proceedings
EditorsAlexander Gelbukh
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages49-65
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783319181165
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event16th Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2015 - Cairo, Egypt
Duration: 14 Apr 201520 Apr 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9042
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2015
Country/TerritoryEgypt
CityCairo
Period14/04/1520/04/15

Keywords

  • Opinion Mining
  • Sentic Computing
  • Sentiment Analysis

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