Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Text Mining
Neethu Akkarapatty, Anjaly Muralidharan, Nisha S. Raj, Vinod P. · Advances in data mining and database management book series · 2016
Sentiment analysis is an emerging field, concerned with the analysis and understanding of human emotions from sentences. Sentiment analysis is the process used to determine the attitude/opinion/emotions expressed by a person about a specific topic based on natural language processing. Proliferation of social media such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin has fuelled interest in sentiment analysis. As the real time data is dynamic, the main focus of the chapter is to extract different categories of features and to analyze which category of attribute performs better. Moreover, classifying the document into positive and negative category with fewer misclassification rate is the primary investigation performed. The various approaches employed for feature selection involves TF-IDF, WET, Chi-Square and mRMR on benchmark dataset pertaining diverse domains.