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In sentiment classification, traditional classification algorithms cannot perform well when the number of labeled data is limited. EM-based Naïve Bayes algorithm is often employed to argument the labeled data with the unlabeled ones. However, such an approach assumes the distributions of these two sets of data are identical, which may not hold in practice and often results in inferior performance.
We propose a semi-supervised algorithm, called Ratio-Adjusted EM-based Naïve Bayes (RAEMNB), for sentiment classification, which combines knowledge from a source domain and limited training instances from a target domain. In RAEMNB, the initial Bayes model is trained from labeled instances from both domains. During each EM iteration, we add an extra R-step to adjust the ratio of predicted positive instances to negative ones, which is approximated with labeled instances of target domain. Experimental results show that our RAEMNB approach outperforms the traditional supervised, semi-supervised classifiers.
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Chen, W., Zhou, J. (2010). A Text Classifier with Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification. In: Cheng, PJ., Kan, MY., Lam, W., Nakov, P. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17187-1_6
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