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Issue title: Mining social semantics on the social web
Guest editors: Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke and Kristina Lerman
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Saif, Hassana; * | Fernandez, Miriama | Kastler, Leonb | Alani, Haritha
Affiliations: [a] Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, MK76AA, Milton Keynes, UK. E-mails: h.saif@open.ac.uk, m.fernandez@open.ac.uk, h.alani@open.ac.uk | [b] Institute for Web Science and Technology, University of Koblenz-Landau, 56070 Koblenz, Germany. E-mail: lkastler@uni-koblenz.de
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: hassan.saif@open.ac.uk.
Abstract: Sentiment analysis over social streams offers governments and organisations a fast and effective way to monitor the publics’ feelings towards policies, brands, business, etc. General purpose sentiment lexicons have been used to compute sentiment from social streams, since they are simple and effective. They calculate the overall sentiment of texts by using a general collection of words, with predetermined sentiment orientation and strength. However, words’ sentiment often vary with the contexts in which they appear, and new words might be encountered that are not covered by the lexicon, particularly in social media environments where content emerges and changes rapidly and constantly. In this paper, we propose a lexicon adaptation approach that uses contextual as well as semantic information extracted from DBPedia to update the words’ weighted sentiment orientations and to add new words to the lexicon. We evaluate our approach on three different Twitter datasets, and show that enriching the lexicon with contextual and semantic information improves sentiment computation by 3.4% in average accuracy, and by 2.8% in average F1 measure.
Keywords: Sentiment lexicon adaptation, semantics, Twitter
DOI: 10.3233/SW-170265
Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 643-665, 2017
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