Improving out-of-domain sentiment polarity classification using argumentation
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Author(s)
Carstens, L
Toni, F
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Domain dependence is an issue that most researchers in corpus-based computational linguistics have faced at one time or another. With this paper we describe a method to perform sentiment polarity classification across domains that utilises Argumentation. We train standard supervised classifiers on a corpus and then attempt to classify instances from a separate corpus, whose contents are concerned with different domains (e.g. sentences from film reviews vs. Tweets). As expected the classifiers perform poorly and we improve upon the use of a simple classifier for out-of-domain classification by taking class labels suggested by classifiers and arguing about their validity. Whenever we can find enough arguments suggesting a mistake has been made by the classifier we change the class label according to what the arguments tell us. By arguing about class labels we are able to improve F1 measures by as much as 14 points, with an average improvement of F1 = 7.33 across all experiments.
Date Issued
2015-11-14
Date Acceptance
2015-11-14
Citation
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop, ICDMW 2015, 2015, pp.1294-1301
ISBN
9781467384926
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
1294
End Page
1301
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop, ICDMW 2015
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Source
15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop, ICDMW 2015
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2015-11-14
Finish Date
2015-11-17
Coverage Spatial
Atlantic City, NJ, USA