11:00 - 12:00
Th-STS13
Chair:
Jacopo Grazzini
General Sentiment Decomposition: opinion mining based on raw NL text
Maurizio Romano, (Email), Francesco Mola, (Email), Claudio Conversano, (Email)
Department of Business and Economics, University of Cagliari, IT

We propose an algorithm to extract the sentiment from a NL text.
Combining the Neural Networks, characterized by high predictive power and harder interpretation, with more informative models,
allows to predict a sentence sentiment while quantifying it with a numeric value. Using an objective quantity improves the interpretation of the results.
After showing how to properly reduce the dimensionality of the textual data with a data-cleaning phase, we show how to combine: WordEmbedding, K-Means clustering, SentiWordNet, and the Naïve Bayes* model.
We show then how to use such a model for unlabelled data while preserving the interpretability and good performance.