Adapting sentiment lexicons using contextual semantics for sentiment analysis of Twitter

Hassan Saif, Yulan He, Miriam Fernández, Harith Alani

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Abstract

Sentiment lexicons for sentiment analysis offer a simple, yet effective way to obtain the prior sentiment information of opinionated words in texts. However, words' sentiment orientations and strengths often change throughout various contexts in which the words appear. In this paper, we propose a lexicon adaptation approach that uses the contextual semantics of words to capture their contexts in tweet messages and update their prior sentiment orientations and/or strengths accordingly. We evaluate our approach on one state-of-the-art sentiment lexicon using three different Twitter datasets. Results show that the sentiment lexicons adapted by our approach outperform the original lexicon in accuracy and F-measure in two datasets, but give similar accuracy and slightly lower F-measure in one dataset.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSSA-SMILE 2014 : joint proceedings of SSA 2014 and SMILE 2014
Subtitle of host publicationjoint proceedings of the 1st workshop on Semantic Sentiment Analysis (SSA2014), and the workshop on Social Media and Linked Data for Emergency Response (SMILE 2014) co-located with 11th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014)
EditorsAldo Gangemi, Harith Alani, Malvina Nissim, Erik Cambria, Diego Reforgiato Recupero
PublisherCEUR-WS.org
Pages5-12
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event1st workshop on Semantic Sentiment Analysis / workshop on Social Media and Linked Data for Emergency Response / co-located with 11th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014) - Crete, Greece
Duration: 25 May 201425 May 2014

Publication series

NameCEUR workshop proceedings
Volume1329
ISSN (Electronic)1613-0073

Workshop

Workshop1st workshop on Semantic Sentiment Analysis / workshop on Social Media and Linked Data for Emergency Response / co-located with 11th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014)
Abbreviated titleSSA-SMILE 2014 (ESWC 2014)
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityCrete
Period25/05/1425/05/14

Bibliographical note

Saif, H; He, Y; Fernández, M; Alani, H 2014 'Adapting sentiment lexicons using contextual semantics for sentiment analysis of Twitter', Proc. SSA-SMILE 2014, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1329/paper_2.pdf

Keywords

  • lexicon adaptation
  • semantics
  • sentiment analysis
  • Twitter

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  • Adapting sentiment lexicons using contextual semantics for sentiment analysis of twitter

    Saif, H., He, Y., Fernández, M. & Alani, H., 16 Oct 2014, The semantic web : ESWC 2014 satellite events: ESWC 2014 satellite events, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014, revised selected papers. Chem (CH): Springer, p. 54-63 10 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 8798).

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  • SentiCircles for contextual and conceptual semantic sentiment analysis of Twitter

    Saif, H., Fernández, M., He, Y. & Alani, H., 31 Dec 2014, The semantic web: trends and challenges: 11th international conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014, proceedings. Presutti, V., d’Amato, C., Gandon, F., d’Aquin, M. & et al (eds.). Chem (CH): Springer, p. 83-98 16 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 8465).

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