1. A Rule-Based Approach to Sentiment Classification of Chinese Microblogging Texts
- Author
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Peng Yi Fan, Hui Wang, Xin Zhang, Jia Jun Cheng, and Pei Li
- Subjects
Thesaurus (information retrieval) ,Microblogging ,Computer science ,business.industry ,InformationSystems_INFORMATIONSTORAGEANDRETRIEVAL ,Sentiment analysis ,General Engineering ,Rule-based system ,computer.software_genre ,Support vector machine ,Social media ,Artificial intelligence ,Construct (philosophy) ,business ,computer ,Natural language processing - Abstract
Chinese microblogging texts are always short and casual, which bring some troubles to the traditional sentiment classification methods based on learning. To overcome this problem, we use a rule-based approach to classify the sentiment of Chinese microblogging texts. According to the characteristics of Chinese microblogging texts, we construct a thesaurus of subjective words for it, summarize the basic semantic rules expressing emotion and propose a rule-based approach to sentiment classification of Chinese microblogging texts. Finally, we compare our approach with a SVM-based approach. Our rule-based approach achieves an accuracy of 0.865, which is better than that of SVM-based approach.
- Published
- 2013