Robust sense-based sentiment classification

  • Authors:
  • A. R. Balamurali;Aditya Joshi;Pushpak Bhattacharyya

  • Affiliations:
  • IITB-Monash Research Academy, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India;IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India;IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

  • Venue:
  • WASSA '11 Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The new trend in sentiment classification is to use semantic features for representation of documents. We propose a semantic space based on WordNet senses for a supervised document-level sentiment classifier. Not only does this show a better performance for sentiment classification, it also opens opportunities for building a robust sentiment classifier. We examine the possibility of using similarity metrics defined on WordNet to address the problem of not finding a sense in the training corpus. Using three popular similarity metrics, we replace unknown synsets in the test set with a similar synset from the training set. An improvement of 6.2% is seen with respect to baseline using this approach.