Affiliations: [a] College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China | [b] Postdoctoral Collaborative Research and Development Center, Bank of Changsha, Changsha, Hunan, China | [c] College of Finance and Statistics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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Corresponding author: Min Wang, College of Finance and Statistics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China. Tel.: +86 0731 88684772; E-mail: minwang@hnu.edu.cn.
Abstract: Sentiment analysis of text data, such as reviews, can help users and merchants make more favorable decisions. It is difficult to use the popular supervised learning method to complete the sentiment classification task because marking data manually is time-consuming and laborious. Unsupervised sentiment classification methods are mostly based on sentiment lexicons. The existing sentiment lexicons are simply not capable of domain sentiment classification, it still requires to construct a domain sentiment lexicon. There are still many problems with the advanced domain sentiment lexicon construction methods, e.g., rely heavily on labeled data, poor accuracy. We propose a labeled data extension idea to reduce the dependence of supervised learning methods on labeled data. In order to solve the problems of domain sentiment lexicon construction, we proposed a novel framework based on multi-source information fusion (MSIF) for learning. We extracted four kinds of emotional information, which are lexicon emotional information, emotional word co-occurrence information, emotional word polarity information and polarity relationship information of emotional word pair. When extracting the co-occurrence information, a novel method based on the data extension idea is proposed to enhance its accuracy and coverage. In order to accelerate the solution of the fusion model, an optimization method based on the ADMM algorithm is applied. Experimental results on five Amazon product review datasets show that the sentiment dictionary constructed by the proposed method can significantly improve the performance of review sentiment classification compared with the current popular baseline and the state-of-the-art methods.
