SSentiment AAnalysis

Presented byAditya Joshi 08305908

Guided byProf. Pushpak Bhattacharyya

IIT Bombay

What is SA & OM?• Identify the orientation of opinion in a

piece of text

• Can be generalized to a wider set of emotions

The movie was fabulous!

The movie stars Mr. X

The movie was horrible!

Motivation• Knowing sentiment is a very natural ability

of a human being.Can a machine be trained to do it?

• SA aims at getting sentiment-related knowledge especially from the huge amount of information on the internet

• Can be generally used to understand opinion in a set of documents

Tripod of Sentiment AnalysisCognitive Science

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Sentiment Analysis

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Contents :

Challenges

Subjectivitydetection

SAApproaches

Applications

Lexical Resources

Challenges• Contrasts with standard text-based

categorization• Domain dependent• Sarcasm• Thwarted expressions

Mere presence of words is Indicative of the category

in case of text categorization.

Not the case with sentiment analysis

• Contrasts with standard text-based categorization

• Domain dependent• Sarcasm• Thwarted expressions

Sentiment of a word is w.r.t. the

domain.

Example: ‘unpredictable’

For steering of a car,

For movie review,

• Contrasts with standard text-based categorization

• Domain dependent• Sarcasm• Thwarted expressions

Sarcasm uses words ofa polarity to represent

another polarity.

Example: The perfume is soamazing that I suggest you wear it

with your windows shut

• Contrasts with standard text-based categorization

• Domain dependent• Sarcasm• Thwarted expressions

the sentences/words that contradict the overall sentiment

of the set are in majority Example: The actors are good,

the music is brilliant and appealing.Yet, the movie fails to strike a chord.

SentiWordNet

•Lexical resource for sentiment analysis

•Built on the top of WordNet synsets

•Attaches sentiment-related information with synsets

Quantifying sentiment

Objective Polarity

Subjective Polarity

Positive Negative

Term sense position

Each term has a Positive, Negative and Objective score. The scores sum to one.

Building SentiWordNet

• Ln, Lo, Lp are the three seed sets• Iteratively expand the seed sets through K

steps• Train the classifier for the expanded sets

LpLn

also-see

antonymy

Expansion of seed sets

The sets at the end of kth step are called Tr(k,p) and Tr(k,n)

Tr(k,o) is the set that is not present in Tr(k,p) and Tr(k,n)

Committee of classifiers• Train a committee of classifiers of different

types and different K-values for the given data

• Observations:– Low values of K give high precision and low

recall– Accuracy in determining positivity or

negativity, however, remains almost constant

WordNet Affect

• Similar to SentiWordNet (an earlier work)• WordNet-Affect: WordNet + annotated

affective concepts in hierarchical order• Hierarchy called ‘affective domain labels’

– behaviour– personality– cognitive state

Subjectivity detection• Aim: To extract subjective portions of text• Algorithm used: Minimum cut algorithm

Constructing the graph• Why graphs?• Nodes and edges?• Individual Scores• Association scores

To model item-specific and pairwise information

independently.

• Why graphs?• Nodes and edges?• Individual Scores• Association scores

Nodes: Sentences of the document and source & sink

Source & sink representthe two classes of sentences

Edges: Weighted with either of the two scores

• Why graphs?• Nodes and edges?• Individual Scores• Association scores

Prediction whether the sentence is subjective or not

Indsub(si)=

• Why graphs?• Nodes and edges?• Individual Scores• Association scores

Prediction whether two sentences should have

the same subjectivity level

T : Threshold – maximum distance upto which sentences may be considered proximalf: The decaying functioni, j : Position numbers

Constructing the graph• Build an undirected graph G with vertices

{v1, v2…,s, t} (sentences and s,t)• Add edges (s, vi) each with weight ind1(xi)

• Add edges (t, vi) each with weight ind2(xi)

• Add edges (vi, vk) with weight assoc (vi, vk)

• Partition cost:

Example

Sample cuts:

DocumentSubjective

Results (1/2)

• Naïve Bayes, no extraction : 82.8%• Naïve Bayes, subjective extraction : 86.4%• Naïve Bayes, ‘flipped experiment’ : 71 %

DocumentSubjectivity

detectorObjective

POLARITY CLASSIFIER

Results (2/2)

Approach 1: Using adjectives

• Many adjectives have high sentiment value– A ‘beautiful’ bag– A ‘wooden’ bench– An ‘embarrassing’ performance

• An idea would be to augment this polarity information to adjectives in the WordNet

Setup• Two anchor words (extremes of the polarity

spectrum) were chosen• PMI of adjectives with respect to these

adjectives is calculated

Polarity Score (W)= PMI(W,excellent) – PMI (W, poor)

excellent poor

wordPMI PMI

Experimentation• K-means clustering algorithm used on the

basis of polarity scores• The clusters contain words with similar

polarities• These words can be linked using an

‘isopolarity link’ in WordNet

Results• Three clusters seen• Major words were with negative polarity

scores• The obscure words were removed by

selecting adjectives with familiarity count of 3– the ones that are not very common

Approach 2: Using Adverb-Adjective Combinations (AACs)

• Calculate sentiment value based on the effect of adverbs on adjectives

• Linguistic ideas:• Adverbs of affirmation: certainly• Adverbs of doubt: possibly• Strong intensifying adverbs: extremely• Weak intensifying adverbs: scarcely• Negation and Minimizers: never

Moving towards computation…

• Based on type of adverb, the score of the resultant AAC will be affected

• Example of an axiom:

• Example : ‘extremely good’ is more positive than ‘good’

AAC Scoring Algorithms

1. Variable Scoring Algorithm2. Adjective Priority Scoring Algorithm3. Adverb first scoring algorithm

Scoring the sentiment on a topic

• Rel (t) : Sentences in d that reference to topic t

• s : Sentence is Rel (t)• Appl+(s) : AACs with positive score in s• Appl-(s) : AACs with negative score in s• Return strength =

Findings• APSr with r=0.35 worked the best (Better

correlation with human subject)– Adjectives are more important than adverbs in

terms of sentiment

• AACs give better precision and recall as compared to only adjectives

Approach 3: Subject-based SA

• Examples:

The horse bolted.

The movie lacks a good story.

Lexiconsubj. bolt

b VB bolt subj

subj. lack obj.

b VB lack obj ~subj

Argument that sends the sentiment (subj./obj.)

Argument that receives the sentiment (subj./obj.)

Argument that receives the sentiment (subj./obj.)

Lexicon• Also allows ‘\S+’ characters• Similar to regular expressions• E.g. to put \S+ to risk

– The favorability of the subject depends on the favorability of ‘\S+’.

Example

The movie lacks a good story.

G JJ good obj.

The movie lacks \S+.

B VB lack obj ~subj.

Lexicon : Steps :

1) Consider a context window of upto five words

2) Shallow parse the sentence

3) Step-by-step calculate the sentiment value based on lexicon and by adding ‘\S+’ characters at each step

ResultsDescription Precision Recall

Benchmark corpus

Mixed statements

94.3% 28%

Open Test corpus

Reviews of a camera

94% 24%

Applications• Review-related analysis• Developing ‘hate mail filters’ analogous to

‘spam mail filters’• Question-answering (Opinion-oriented

questions may involve different treatment)

Conclusion & Future Work• Lexical Resources have been developed to

capture sentiment-related nature• Subjective extracts provide a better accuracy of

sentiment prediction• Several approaches use algorithms like Naïve

Bayes, clustering, etc. to perform sentiment analysis

• The cognitive angle to Sentiment Analysis can be explored in the future

References (1/2)• Tetsuya Nasukawa, Jeonghee Yi. ‘Sentiment Analysis: Capturing

Favorability Using Natural Language Processing’. In K-CAP ’03, Florida, pages 1-8. 2003.

• Alekh Agarwal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya. ‘Augmenting WordNet with polarity information on adjectives’. In K-CAP ’03, Florida, pages 1-8. 2003.

• SENTIWORDNET: A Publicly Available Lexical Resource for Opinion Mining Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani

• ‘Machine Learning’, Han and Kamber, 2nd edition, 310-330.• http://wordnet.princeton.edu• Farah Benamara, Carmine Cesarano, Antonio Picariello, VS Subrahmanian

et al; ‘Sentiment Analysis: Adjectives and Adverbs are better than Adjectives Alone’; In ICWSM ’2007 Boulder, CO USA, 2007.

References (2/2)• Jon M. Kleinberg; ‘Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment’ as

IBM Research Report RJ 10076, May 1997, Pgs. 1 – 34.• www.cs.uah.edu/~jrushing/cs696-summer2004/notes/Ch8Supp.ppt• Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis, Foundations and Trends in

Information Retrieval, B. Pang and L. Lee, Vol. 2, Nos. 1–2 (2008) 1–135, 2008.

• Bo Pang, Lillian Lee; ‘A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts’; Proceedings of the 42nd ACL; pp. 271–278; 2004.

• http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~veeranna/ppt/Wordnet-Affect.ppt