Comparing Approaches to Subjectivity Classification: A Study on Portuguese Tweets

Siliva Moraes, Andre Santos*, Matheus Redecker, Rackel Machado, Felipe Meneguzzi

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Abstract

In this paper, we compare lexicon-based and machine learning-based approaches to define the subjectivity of tweets in Portuguese. We tested SentiLex and WordAffectBR lexicons, and Sequential Machine Optimization and Naive Bayes algorithms for this task. In our study, we used the Computer-BR corpus that contains messages about the technology area. We obtained better results using the Comprehensive Measurement Feature Selection method and the Sequential Machine Optimization algorithm as the classifier. We achieved considerable accuracy when we included the polarities of words in the vector space model of tweets.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Processing of the Portuguese Language
Subtitle of host publicationPROPOR 2016
EditorsJ. Silva, R Ribeiro, P. Quaresma, A. Adami, A. Branco
PublisherSpringer
Pages86-94
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-41552-9
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-41551-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jun 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume9727

Bibliographical note

Moraes, S.M.W., Santos, A.L.L., Redecker, M., Machado, R.M., Meneguzzi, F.R. (2016). Comparing Approaches to Subjectivity Classification: A Study on Portuguese Tweets. In: Silva, J., Ribeiro, R., Quaresma, P., Adami, A., Branco, A. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9727. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_8

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