A hybrid approach to the sentiment analysis problem at the sentence level

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 108, Issue , 2016, Pages 110-124

  Appel, Orestes ^a   Chiclana, Francisco ^a   Carter, Jenny ^a   Fujita, Hamido ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computing with sentiments; Fuzzy sets; Maximum entropy; Na ve Bayes; Semantic rules; Sentiment analysis; SentiWordNet; Unsupervised machine learning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; ENTROPY; FUZZY SETS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SODIUM;

COMPUTING WITH SENTIMENTS; SEMANTIC RULES; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SENTIWORDNET; UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS;

EID: 84970016111     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2016.05.040     Document Type: Article

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