Sentiment Analysis of Microblogs Using Multilayer Feed-Forward Artificial Neural Networks

Authors

  • Vladimir Despotovic University of Belgrade, Technical Faculty in Bor
  • Dejan Tanikic University of Belgrade, Technical Faculty in Bor

Keywords:

Sentiment analysis, opinion mining, microblogs, Twitter, neural networks, machine learning

Abstract

Sentiment analysis aims to extract public opinion on a particular topic and microblogs, especially Twitter as the most influential platform, represent a significant source of information. The application to microblogs has to cope with difficulties, such as informal language with abbreviations, internet jargons, emoticons, hashtags that do not appear in conventional text documents. Sentiment analysis technique for microblogs based on a feed-forward artificial neural network (ANN) with sigmoid activation function is proposed in this paper and compared to machine learning approaches, i.e. Multinomial Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machines and Maximum Entropy. Experiments were performed on Stanford Twitter Sentiment corpus, a balanced dataset which contains noisy training labels weakly annotated using emoticons as sentiment indicators; and SemEval-2014 Task 9 corpus, an unbalanced dataset which contains manually annotated training examples. The obtained results show that ANN produces superior or at least comparable results to state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.

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Published

2017-12-19

How to Cite

Despotovic, V., & Tanikic, D. (2017). Sentiment Analysis of Microblogs Using Multilayer Feed-Forward Artificial Neural Networks. Computing and Informatics, 36(5), 1127–1142. Retrieved from http://147.213.75.17/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/2017_5_1127