TY - GEN
T1 - Combining social cognitive theories with linguistic features for multi-genre sentiment analysis
AU - Li, Hao
AU - Chen, Yu
AU - Ji, Heng
AU - Muresan, Smaranda
AU - Zheng, Dequan
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - With the rapid development of social media and social networks, spontaneously user generated content like tweets and forum posts have become important materials for tracking people's opinions and sentiments online. In this paper we investigate the limitations of traditional linguistic-based approaches to sentiment analysis when applied to these informal genres. Inspired by various social cognitive theories, we combine local linguistic features and global social evidence in a propagation scheme to improve sentiment analysis results. Without using any additional labeled data, this new approach obtains significant improvement (up to 12% higher accuracy) for various genres in the domain of presidential election.
AB - With the rapid development of social media and social networks, spontaneously user generated content like tweets and forum posts have become important materials for tracking people's opinions and sentiments online. In this paper we investigate the limitations of traditional linguistic-based approaches to sentiment analysis when applied to these informal genres. Inspired by various social cognitive theories, we combine local linguistic features and global social evidence in a propagation scheme to improve sentiment analysis results. Without using any additional labeled data, this new approach obtains significant improvement (up to 12% higher accuracy) for various genres in the domain of presidential election.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883341882
SN - 9789791421171
T3 - Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2012
SP - 127
EP - 136
BT - Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2012
T2 - 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2012
Y2 - 7 November 2012 through 7 November 2012
ER -