Sentiment analysis of customer reviews: Balanced versus unbalanced datasets

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6881 LNAI, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 161-170

  Burns, Nicola ^a   Bi, Yaxin ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Anderson, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

language model; na ve Bayes; opinion mining; Sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

BAYES CLASSIFIER; CUSTOMER REVIEW; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT SIZES; DYNAMIC LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE MODEL; OPINION MINING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; BALANCED DATASETS; UNBALANCED DATASETS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; MACHINE LEARNING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80053166947     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23851-2_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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