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Title: Semantic Graph based Term Expansion for Sentence-Level Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Maree, Mohammed$AAUP$Palestinian
Eleyat, Mujahed $AAUP$Palestinian
Keywords: Semantic graph
Sentiment analysis
POS-based Term expansion
Machine learning
Term Prior Polarity
Issue Date: 30-Dec-2020
Publisher: computingonline.net
Abstract: The semantic orientation (also referred to as prior polarity) of a word plays an important role in automatic sentence-level sentiment analysis. Several approaches have been proposed wherein a lexicon of words marked with their polarities is exploited to infer the meaning of sentences. However, relying on prior word polarity may produce inaccurate decisions. This is because we may find negative-sentence sentiments that include words with positive prior polarities or vice versa. In this article, we propose an approach to sentence-level sentiment analysis that exploits knowledge encoded in heavy-weight semantic graphs to assist in discovering the meaning of a word in the context of the sentence where it appears. In this context, we build contextual semantic networks for indexing sentences and expand them with semantically/lexically-relevant terms in an attempt to disambiguate the meanings of word mentions in sentences. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach, we have developed a prototype system using a real-world dataset that contains 46830 sentiment sentences along with a gold-standard that comprises 10000 movie reviews that are labelled under five sentiment categories (very negative, negative, neutral, positive, very positive). Findings indicate that enriching the semantic graphs of sentiment sentences with NOUN-based synonyms and hypernyms has improved the overall quality of baseline sentiment analysis techniques.
URI: http://repository.aaup.edu/jspui/handle/123456789/1324
ISSN: 2312-5381
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