Exploring the use of word relation features for sentiment classification

  • Authors:
  • Rui Xia;Chengqing Zong

  • Affiliations:
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences;Chinese Academy of Sciences

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

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Abstract

Word relation features, which encode relation information between words, are supposed to be effective features for sentiment classification. However, the use of word relation features suffers from two issues. One is the sparse-data problem and the lack of generalization performance; the other is the limitation of using word relations as additional features to unigrams. To address the two issues, we propose a generalized word relation feature extraction method and an ensemble model to efficiently integrate unigrams and different type of word relation features. Furthermore, aimed at reducing the computation complexity, we propose two fast feature selection methods that are specially designed for word relation features. A range of experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of our approaches.