A topic sentence-based instance transfer method for imbalanced sentiment classification of Chinese product reviews

作者:

Highlights:

• Proposed a topic sentence-based instance transfer method to process imbalanced Chinese product reviews.

• Introduced a rule and supervision learning hybrid method for identifying topic sentence of a product review.

• Incorporated feature set of the topic sentence to the feature space of sentiment classification.

• Used a SMOTE-based method to overcome feature space inconsistency between source dataset and target dataset.

• Result verified that our proposed methods helps SVM outperforms considering the ability of generalization.

摘要

•Proposed a topic sentence-based instance transfer method to process imbalanced Chinese product reviews.•Introduced a rule and supervision learning hybrid method for identifying topic sentence of a product review.•Incorporated feature set of the topic sentence to the feature space of sentiment classification.•Used a SMOTE-based method to overcome feature space inconsistency between source dataset and target dataset.•Result verified that our proposed methods helps SVM outperforms considering the ability of generalization.

论文关键词:Classification methods,Imbalanced sample classification,Instance transfer methods,Product reviews,Topic sentence analysis

论文评审过程:Received 28 February 2015, Revised 22 October 2015, Accepted 22 October 2015, Available online 30 October 2015, Version of Record 5 May 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2015.10.003