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2014

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Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis In The Social Web, Fazal Masud Kundi, Dr. Muhammad Zubair Asghar Jul 2014

Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis In The Social Web, Fazal Masud Kundi, Dr. Muhammad Zubair Asghar

Dr. Muhammad Zubair Asghar

Sentiment analysis is a compelling issue for both information producers and consumers. We are living in the “age of customer”, where customer knowledge and perception is a key for running successful business. The goal of sentiment analysis is to recognize and express emotions digitally. This paper presents the lexicon-based framework for sentiment classification, which classifies tweets as a positive, negative, or neutral. The proposed framework also detects and scores the slangs used in the tweets. The comparative results show that the proposed system outperforms the existing systems. It achieves 92% accuracy in binary classification and 87% in multi-class classification.


Lexicon Based Approach For Sentiment Classification Of User Reviews, Dr. Muhammad Zubair Asghar Jul 2014

Lexicon Based Approach For Sentiment Classification Of User Reviews, Dr. Muhammad Zubair Asghar

Dr. Muhammad Zubair Asghar

With the advent of web, online user reviews are getting more and more attention of the researchers because valuable information about products and services are available on social media like twitter1. These reviews are very helpful for organizations as well as for new customers showing interest in these products or services. But this data is generated in tremendous amount which is out of control of manual mining methods. These reviews need a model that has the ability to gauge these shared reviews according to predefined categories. This work introduces a rule based approach to find the opinion classification of reviews. …