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An Information Gain-Driven Feature Study for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (NLDB 2016)

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Nowadays, opinions are a ubiquitous part of the Web and sharing experiences has never been more popular. Information regarding consumer opinions is valuable for consumers and producers alike, aiding in their respective decision processes. Due to the size and heterogeneity of this type of information, computer algorithms are employed to gain the required insight. Current research, however, tends to forgo a rigorous analysis of the used features, only going so far as to analyze complete feature sets. In this paper we analyze which features are good predictors for aspect-level sentiment using Information Gain and why this is the case. We also present an extensive set of features and show that it is possible to use only a small fraction of the features at just a minor cost to accuracy.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are supported by the Dutch national program COMMIT. We would like to thank Nienke Dijkstra, Vivian Hinfelaar, Isabelle Houck, Tim van den IJssel, and Eline van de Ven, for many fruitful discussions during this research.

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    Kim Schouten, Flavius Frasincar & Rommert Dekker

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Schouten, K., Frasincar, F., Dekker, R. (2016). An Information Gain-Driven Feature Study for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. In: Métais, E., Meziane, F., Saraee, M., Sugumaran, V., Vadera, S. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9612. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41754-7_5

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