A Feature-Based Approach for Sentiment Quantification Using Machine Learning
Sentiment analysis has been one of the most active research areas in the past decade due
to its vast applications. Sentiment quantification, a new research problem in this field,
extends sentiment analysis from individual documents to an aggregated collection of
documents. Sentiment analysis has been widely researched, but sentiment quantification
has drawn less attention despite offering a greater potential to enhance current business
intelligence systems. In this research, to perform sentiment quantification, a framework
based on feature engineering is proposed to exploit diverse feature sets such as sentiment,
content, and part of speech, as well as deep features including word2vec and GloVe.
Different machine learning algorithms, including conventional, ensemble learners, and
deep learning approaches, have been investigated on standard datasets of SemEval2016,
SemEval2017, STS-Gold, and Sanders. The empirical-based results reveal the
effectiveness of the proposed feature sets in the process of sentiment quantification when
applied to machine learning algorithms. The results also reveal that the ensemble-based
algorithm AdaBoost outperforms other conventional machine learning algorithms using a
combination of proposed feature sets. The deep learning algorithm RNN, on the other
hand, shows optimal results using word embedding-based features. This research has the
potential to help diverse applications of sentiment quantification, including polling, trend
analysis, automatic summarization, and rumor or fake news detection.
Problem Statement and Formulation
Accuracy is an important parameter in the field of sentiment analysis. In the literature,
various feature sets have been exploited using machine learning techniques to improve
the results. However, there is still a need to investigate those feature sets for the emerging
domain of sentiment quantification and to further improve accuracy because of the
sensitive nature of sentiment in the opinion-seeking process. There is a need to contribute
to the field of sentiment quantification to inquire about the impact of feature sets for
sentiment quantification. In addition, as existing research studies only focus on machine
learning, there is a need to explore deep learning approaches.
Exiting disadvantage
1. Improve the accuracy
2. Feature selection is low
Proposed contribution
Novel feature sets are proposed such as proposed, tweet, specific, content, and sentiment,
with the ranking of features carried out using feature selection approaches.
• Deep features including word2vec and GloVe are used for sentiment analysis, and
these features are considered for sentiment quantification.
• Machine learning approaches have been investigated, including: (1) traditional
techniques—Support Vector Machine (SVM), Naïve Bayes (NB), and Decision Tree
(DT); (2) ensemble learners—Random Forest (RF) and AdaBoost; (3) deep learningbased
—Deep Belief Network (DBN), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and Recurrent
Neural Network (RNN).
Proposed modules :
1. Data set input
2. Machine learning
3. Classification (SPRINT) our proposed work
4. Feature selection
5. Feature extraction
6. Calculate accuracy, sensitivity ,specificity, F-measure
Figure 1 Sample proposed architecture