Hierarchical Classifiers for Multi-Way Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Reviews
Journal Title: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Sentiment Analysis (SA) is one of hottest fields in data mining (DM) and natural language processing (NLP). The goal of SA is to extract the sentiment conveyed in a certain text based on its content. While most current works focus on the simple problem of determining whether the sentiment is positive or negative, Multi-Way Sentiment Analysis (MWSA) focuses on sentiments conveyed through a rating or scoring system (e.g., a 5-star scoring system). In such scoring systems, the sentiments conveyed in two reviews of close scores (such as 4 stars and 5 stars) can be very similar creating an added challenge compared to traditional SA. One intuitive way of handling this challenge is via a divide-and-conquer approach where the MWSA problem is divided into a set of sub-problems allowing the use of customized classifiers to differentiate between reviews of close scores. A hierarchical classification structure can be used with this approach where each node represents a different classification sub-problem and the decision from it may lead to the invocation of another classifier. In this work, we show how the use of this divide-and-conquer hierarchical structure of classifiers can generate better results than the use of existing flat classifiers for the MWSA problem. We focus on the Arabic language for many reasons such as the importance of this language and the scarcity of prior works and available tools for it. To the best of our knowledge, very few papers have been published on MWSA of Arabic reviews. One notable work is that of Ali and Atiya, in which the authors collected a large scale Arabic Book Reviews (LABR) dataset and made it publicly available. Unfortunately, the baseline experiments on this dataset had very low accuracy. We present two different hierarchical structures and compare their accuracies with the flat structure using different core classifiers. The comparison is based on standard accuracy measures such as precision and recall in addition to using the mean squared error (MSE) as a more accurate measure given the fact that not all misclassifications are the same. The results show that, in general, hierarchical classifiers give significant improvements (of more than 50% in certain cases) over flat classifiers.
Authors and Affiliations
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Aya Nuseir, Ghassan Kanaan, Riyad Al-Shalabi
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