Abstract
Feature based sentiment analysis is normally conducted using review Web sites, since it is difficult to extract accurate product features from tweets. However, Twitter users express sentiment towards a large variety of products in many different languages. Besides, sentiment expressed on Twitter is more up to date and represents the sentiment of a larger population than review articles. Therefore, we propose a method that identifies product features using review articles and then conduct sentiment analysis on tweets containing those features. In that way, we can increase the precision of feature extraction by up to 40% compared to features extracted directly from tweets. Moreover, our method translates and matches the features extracted for multiple languages and ranks them based on how frequently the features are mentioned in the tweets of each language. By doing this, we can highlight the features that are the most relevant for multilingual analysis.
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Erdmann, M., Ikeda, K., Ishizaki, H., Hattori, G., Takishima, Y. (2014). Feature Based Sentiment Analysis of Tweets in Multiple Languages. In: Benatallah, B., Bestavros, A., Manolopoulos, Y., Vakali, A., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2014. WISE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8787. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11746-1_8
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