A hierarchical classifier applied to multi-way sentiment detection

  • Authors:
  • Adrian Bickerstaffe;Ingrid Zukerman

  • Affiliations:
  • Monash University;Monash University

  • Venue:
  • COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper considers the problem of document-level multi-way sentiment detection, proposing a hierarchical classifier algorithm that accounts for the inter-class similarity of tagged sentiment-bearing texts. This type of classifier also provides a natural mechanism for reducing the feature space of the problem. Our results show that this approach improves on state-of-the-art predictive performance for movie reviews with three-star and four-star ratings, while simultaneously reducing training times and memory requirements.