SELC: a self-supervised model for sentiment classification

  • Authors:
  • Likun Qiu;Weishi Zhang;Changjian Hu;Kai Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Peking University, and NEC Laboratories, Beijing, China;NEC Laboratories, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;NEC Laboratories, Beijing, China;NEC Laboratories, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents the SELC Model (SElf-Supervised, (Lexicon-based and (Corpus-based Model) for sentiment classification. The SELC Model includes two phases. The first phase is a lexicon-based iterative process. In this phase, some reviews are initially classified based on a sentiment dictionary. Then more reviews are classified through an iterative process with a negative/positive ratio control. In the second phase, a supervised classifier is learned by taking some reviews classified in the first phase as training data. Then the supervised classifier applies on other reviews to revise the results produced in the first phase. Experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed model. SELC totally achieves 6.63% F1-score improvement over the best result in previous studies on the same data (from 82.72% to 89.35%). The first phase of the SELC Model independently achieves 5.90% improvement (from 82.72% to 88.62%). Moreover, the standard deviation of F1-scores is reduced, which shows that the SELC Model could be more suitable for domain-independent sentiment classification.