Opinum: statistical sentiment analysis for opinion classification

  • Authors:
  • Boyan Bonev;Gema Ramírez-Sánchez;Sergio Ortiz Rojas

  • Affiliations:
  • Avenida Universidad, Elche, Alicante (Spain);Avenida Universidad, Elche, Alicante (Spain);Avenida Universidad, Elche, Alicante (Spain)

  • Venue:
  • WASSA '12 Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop in Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The classification of opinion texts in positive and negative can be tackled by evaluating separate key words but this is a very limited approach. We propose an approach based on the order of the words without using any syntactic and semantic information. It consists of building one probabilistic model for the positive and another one for the negative opinions. Then the test opinions are compared to both models and a decision and confidence measure are calculated. In order to reduce the complexity of the training corpus we first lemmatize the texts and we replace most named-entities with wildcards. We present an accuracy above 81% for Spanish opinions in the financial products domain.