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Polarity classification on twitter data for classifying sarcasm using clause pattern for sentiment analysis

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Nowadays, an enormous amount of data is available on the WWW and exponentially growing as well. A lot of users use social networking websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google+ as common platforms for sharing and exchanging views and opinions on any topics/events. The researchers have considered the reviews and views of the users on these platforms for sentiment analysis, opinion mining, question answering, text summarization, etc. The paper proposes a novel approach for identifying reviews or opinion of users having sarcasm in the text patterns at the clause level. The sentences are classified into four categories such as Simple Sentences, Compound Sentences, Complex Sentences, and Compound-Complex Sentences based on the rules derived from a decision tree. The Simple Sentences and Complex Sentences alone are considered for analysing the sentence patterns where a positive sentiment contrasts with a negative polarity and vice-versa. The decision tree and neuro-fuzzy rules are used on sentence structures to classify the sentences into sarcastic and non-sarcastic sentence patterns. Membership functions are used to map the fuzzy rules and linguistic grading is used for grading the sarcastic patterns. The proposed approach is evaluated on Twitter Dataset and found that the results are promising with the recent and relevant work.

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Prasanna, M.S.M., Shaila, S.G. & Vadivel, A. Polarity classification on twitter data for classifying sarcasm using clause pattern for sentiment analysis. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 32789–32825 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-14909-w

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