Employing emotion keywords to improve cross-domain sentiment classification

  • Authors:
  • Zhu Zhu;Daming Dai;Yaxing Ding;Jianbin Qian;Shoushan Li

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science & Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China;School of Computer Science & Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China;School of Computer Science & Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China;School of Computer Science & Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China;School of Computer Science & Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

  • Venue:
  • CLSW'12 Proceedings of the 13th Chinese conference on Chinese Lexical Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Cross-domain classification is a challenging problem in the research of sentiment classification. In this study, we propose a novel approach to cross-domain sentiment classification by exploiting the classification knowledge from some emotion keywords. First, our approach uses some emotion keywords to extract the automatically-labeled samples with a high precision from the target area. Then, both the automatically-labeled samples from the target domain and the real labeled samples from the source domain are combined to be a new labeled data set. Third, all the labeled data and the unlabeled data in the target domain are used to perform cross-domain sentiment classification with a standard label-propagation algorithm. The empirical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.