Sentiment Analysis of Movie Reviews: Optimizing Predictions Through TF-IDF Vectorization
Mohd Irfan, Anne Sreyas Venkatesam, Shanmugasundaram Hariharan, Mahendra Kumar Gourisaria, Subrata Chowdhury, Sudhansu Shekhar Patra · 2025
Sentiment analysis model is aimed to accurately interpret movie reviews, addressing challenges like sarcasm and noisy data. By integrating multiple machine learning classifiers Naive Bayes, Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, and XGBoost—the model enhances sentiment prediction accuracy. The Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) method is used to extract features from a dataset of 50,000 movie reviews. Performance is evaluated using accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, with Logistic Regression achieving the best results, including an highest accuracy of 84.33 % and an F1-score of 0.847. In comparison to traditional methods, this multi-classifier approach offers a deeper understanding of movie reviews and its influence on audience decisions. The study demonstrates the potential of using these machine learning techniques to provide real-time, scalable sentiment analysis, which is crucial for filmmakers and marketers seeking insights into audience satisfaction and box office performance.