Refined distributed emotion vector representation for social media sentiment analysis

PLoS One. 2019 Oct 24;14(10):e0223317. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223317. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

As user-generated content increasingly proliferates through social networking sites, our lives are bombarded with ever more information, which has in turn has inspired the rapid evolution of new technologies and tools to process these vast amounts of data. Semantic and sentiment analysis of these social multimedia have become key research topics in many areas in society, e.g., in shopping malls to help policymakers predict market trends and discover potential customers. In this light, this study proposes a novel method to analyze the emotional aspects of Chinese vocabulary and then to assess the mass comments of the movie reviews. The experiment results show that our method 1. can improve the machine learning model by providing more refined emotional information to enhance the effectiveness of movie recommendation systems, and 2. performs significantly better than the other commonly used methods of emotional analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Emotions*
  • Humans
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Social Media*

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under grant MOST 106-2218-E-038-004-MY2, MOST 107-2410-H-038-017-MY3, and MOST 107-2634-F-001-005. The Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan also provided financial support for our work.