Sentiment classification using the theory of ANNs

Sentiment classification has attracted increasing interest from natural language processing. The goal of sentiment classification is to automatically identify whether a given piece of text expresses positive or negative opinion on a topic of interest. This paper presents the standpoint that uses individual model (i-model) based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) to determine text sentiment classification. The individual model consists of sentimental features, feature weight and prior knowledge base. During the training process, i-model that makes right sentimental judgment will correct those are wrong, to make more accurate prediction of text sentiment polarity. Experimental results show that the accuracy of individual model is higher than that of support vector machines (SVMs) and hidden Markov model (HMM) classifiers on movie review corpus.