A Lexicon-Enhanced Method for Sentiment Classification: An Experiment on Online Product Reviews

Author

Dang, Yan ; Zhang, Yulei ; Chen, Hsinchun

Author_Institution

Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Volume

25

Issue

4

fYear

2010

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

53

Abstract

As an emerging communication platform, Web 2.0 has led the Internet to become increasingly user-centric. People are participating in and exchanging opinions through online community-based social media, such as discussion boards, Web forums, and blogs. Along with such trends, an increasing amount of user-generated content containing rich opinion and sentiment information has appeared on the Internet. Understanding such opinion and sentiment information has become increasingly important for both service and product providers and users because it plays an important role in influencing consumer purchasing decisions.

Keywords

Internet; computational linguistics; consumer behaviour; social networking (online); Internet; Web 2.0; Web forums; blogs; consumer purchasing decisions; discussion boards; lexicon enhanced method; online community based social media; online product reviews; sentiment classification; user generated content; DVD; Digital cameras; Electronic mail; Home appliances; Intelligent systems; Learning systems; Machine learning; Management information systems; feature representation; intelligent systems; online product reviews; sentiment classification;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1541-1672

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIS.2009.105

Filename

5339128