E2SAM: Evolutionary ensemble of sentiment analysis methods for domain adaptation

Currently, a plethora of industrial and academic sentiment analysis methods for classifying the opinion polarity of a text are available and ready to use. However, each of those methods have their strengths and weaknesses, due mainly to the approach followed in their design (supervised/unsupervised)...

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Autores: López, Miguel, Valdivia, Ana, Martínez Cámara, Eugenio, Luzón, M. Victoria, Herrera, Francisco
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Jaén
Repositorio:RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaén
OAI Identifier:oai:ruja.ujaen.es:10953/2293
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2018.12.038
https://hdl.handle.net/10953/2293
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sentiment Analysis
Ensembles Classifier
Genetic Algorithms
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Sumario:Currently, a plethora of industrial and academic sentiment analysis methods for classifying the opinion polarity of a text are available and ready to use. However, each of those methods have their strengths and weaknesses, due mainly to the approach followed in their design (supervised/unsupervised) or the domain of text used in their development. The weaknesses are usually related to the capacity of generalisation of machine learning algorithms, and the lexical coverage of linguistic resources. Those issues are two of the main causes of one of the challenges of Sentiment Analysis, namely the domain adaptation problem. We argue that the right ensemble of a set of heterogeneous Sentiment Analysis Methods will lessen the domain adaptation problem. Thus, we propose a new methodology for optimising the contribution of a set of off-the-shelf Sentiment Analysis Methods in an ensemble classifier depending on the domain of the input text. The results clearly show that our claim holds.