ECNU: Expression- And Message-level Sentiment Orientation Classification in Twitter Using Multiple Effective Features

  • Jiang Zhao
  • , Man Lan*
  • , Tian Tian Zhu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Microblogging websites (such as Twitter, Facebook) are rich sources of data for opinion mining and sentiment analysis. In this paper, we describe our approaches used for sentiment analysis in twitter (task 9) organized in SemEval 2014. This task tries to determine whether the sentiment orientations conveyed by the whole tweets or pieces of tweets are positive, negative or neutral. To solve this problem, we extracted several simple and basic features considering the following aspects: surface text, syntax, sentiment score and twitter characteristic. Then we exploited these features to build a classifier using SVM algorithm. Despite the simplicity of features, our systems rank above the average.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014, Proceedings
EditorsPreslav Nakov, Torsten Zesch
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages259-264
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643242
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 23 Aug 201424 Aug 2014

Publication series

Name8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014, Proceedings

Conference

Conference8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2014 - co-located with the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period23/08/1424/08/14

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