Sentiment analysis of twitter data using machine learning approaches and semantic analysis

Abstract

The wide spread of World Wide Web has brought a new way of expressing the sentiments of individuals. It is also a medium with a huge amount of information where users can view the opinion of other users that are classified into different sentiment classes and are increasingly growing as a key factor in decision making. This paper contributes to the sentiment analysis for customers' review classification which is helpful to analyze the information in the form of the number of tweets where opinions are highly unstructured and are either positive or negative, or somewhere in between of these two. For this we first pre-processed the dataset, after that extracted the adjective from the dataset that have some meaning which is called feature vector, then selected the feature vector list and thereafter applied machine learning based classification algorithms namely: Naive Bayes, Maximum entropy and SVM along with the Semantic Orientation based WordNet which extracts synonyms and similarity for the content feature. Finally we measured the performance of classifier in terms of recall, precision and accuracy.