Tweets Classification on the Base of Sentiments for US Airline Companies

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Arif Mehmood¹  Furqan Rustam²  Gyu Sang Choi²  Saleem Ullah²  Imran Ashraf³ 

[1] Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongbuk 38541, Korea;Department of Computer Science, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab 64200, Pakistan;;Department of Information &

关键词: text mining;    text classification;    sentiment analysis;    supervised machine learning;    ensemble classifier;    long short-term memory network;   

DOI  :  10.3390/e21111078

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The use of data from social networks such as Twitter has been increased during the last few years to improve political campaigns, quality of products and services, sentiment analysis, etc. Tweets classification based on user sentiments is a collaborative and important task for many organizations. This paper proposes a voting classifier (VC) to help sentiment analysis for such organizations. The VC is based on logistic regression (LR) and stochastic gradient descent classifier (SGDC) and uses a soft voting mechanism to make the final prediction. Tweets were classified into positive, negative and neutral classes based on the sentiments they contain. In addition, a variety of machine learning classifiers were evaluated using accuracy, precision, recall and F1 score as the performance metrics. The impact of feature extraction techniques, including term frequency (TF), term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), and word2vec, on classification accuracy was investigated as well. Moreover, the performance of a deep long short-term memory (LSTM) network was analyzed on the selected dataset. The results show that the proposed VC performs better than that of other classifiers. The VC is able to achieve an accuracy of 0.789, and 0.791 with TF and TF-IDF feature extraction, respectively. The results demonstrate that ensemble classifiers achieve higher accuracy than non-ensemble classifiers. Experiments further proved that the performance of machine learning classifiers is better when TF-IDF is used as the feature extraction method. Word2vec feature extraction performs worse than TF and TF-IDF feature extraction. The LSTM achieves a lower accuracy than machine learning classifiers.

【 授权许可】

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