Sentiment classification and polarity shifting

  • Authors:
  • Shoushan Li;Sophia Yat Mei Lee;Ying Chen;Chu-Ren Huang;Guodong Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Soochow University;The Hong Kong Polytechnic University;The Hong Kong Polytechnic University;The Hong Kong Polytechnic University;Soochow University

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

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Abstract

Polarity shifting marked by various linguistic structures has been a challenge to automatic sentiment classification. In this paper, we propose a machine learning approach to incorporate polarity shifting information into a document-level sentiment classification system. First, a feature selection method is adopted to automatically generate the training data for a binary classifier on polarity shifting detection of sentences. Then, by using the obtained binary classifier, each document in the original polarity classification training data is split into two partitions, polarity-shifted and polarity-unshifted, which are used to train two base classifiers respectively for further classifier combination. The experimental results across four different domains demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.