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Dictionary-Based Sentiment Analysis Applied to a Specific Domain

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The web and social media have been growing exponentially in recent years. We now have access to documents bearing opinions expressed on a broad range of topics. This constitutes a rich resource for natural language processing tasks, particularly for sentiment analysis. Nevertheless, sentiment analysis is usually difficult because expressed sentiments are usually topic-oriented. In this paper, we propose to automatically construct a sentiment dictionary using relevant terms obtained from web pages for a specific domain. This dictionary is initially built by querying the web with a combination of opinion terms, as well as terms of the domain. In order to select only relevant terms we apply two measures \(\textit{AcroDef}_{\textit{MI}3}\) and TrueSkill. Experiments conducted on different domains highlight that our automatic approach performs better for specific cases.

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Notes

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    In this paper, we use term in order to characterize linguistic features.

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    http://sentiwordnet.isti.cnr.it.

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    For simplicity, in this paper, we only report experiments that have been conducted on nouns and adjectives. Other experiments have been done by using adverbs and verbs.

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    http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~schmid/tools/TreeTagger/.

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    http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/pabo/movie-review-data/.

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    https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdredze/datasets/sentiment/.

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This work has been supported and funded by FONDECYT and SONGES project (http://textmining.biz/Projects/Songes) (FEDER and Occitanie).

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Cruz, L., Ochoa, J., Roche, M., Poncelet, P. (2017). Dictionary-Based Sentiment Analysis Applied to a Specific Domain. In: Lossio-Ventura, J., Alatrista-Salas, H. (eds) Information Management and Big Data. SIMBig SIMBig 2015 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 656. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55209-5_5

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