Sentiment analysis of Movie reviews and Blog posts

Abstract

This paper presents our experimental work on performance evaluation of the SentiWordNet approach for document-level sentiment classification of Movie reviews and Blog posts. We have implemented SentiWordNet approach with different variations of linguistic features, scoring schemes and aggregation thresholds. We used two pre-existing large datasets of Movie Reviews and two Blog post datasets on revolutionary changes in Libya and Tunisia. We have computed sentiment polarity and also its strength for both movie reviews and blog posts. The paper also presents an evaluative account of performance of the SentiWordNet approach with two popular machine learning approaches: Naïve Bayes and SVM for sentiment classification. The comparative performance of the approaches for both movie reviews and blog posts is illustrated through standard performance evaluation metrics of Accuracy, F-measure and Entropy.