A Lexical Updating Algorithm for Sentiment Analysis on Chinese Movie Reviews

Yiwei Song, Kaiwen Gu, Huakang Li, Guozi Sun*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With the prevalence of Internet, sentiment analysis gets popularity among the world. Researchers have made use of kinds of online documents like commodities reivews and movie reviews as training samples to train their models and classfiers, by which they could speculate the underlying emotion in new ones. Douban is a Chinese online community where users share their personal reviews to express their feelings about movies. Those Chinese movie reviews were utilized by us to train our lexicon-based model. Yet multiple words in a ready-made lexicon do not agree with the movie reviews in a specific domain, which means the original lexicon acquires being updated to gain higher accuracy. In this paper we introduce a lexical updating algorithm based on a widely used lexicon. After turns of training of updating, this lexicon is capable of classifying sentiment among movie reviews. The experimental result shows our model using the updated lexicon could get a better performance than the primitive lexicon-based model.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 5th International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, CBD 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages188-193
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538610725
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Sept 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, CBD 2017 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 13 Aug 201716 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 5th International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, CBD 2017

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, CBD 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period13/08/1716/08/17

Keywords

  • Lexical updating algorithm
  • Movie review
  • Sentiment Analysis

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