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Feature Transfer Through New Statistical Association Measure for Cross-Domain Sentiment Analysis
Tareq Al-Moslmi, Nazlia Omar, Mohammed Albared and Adel Al-Shabi

Abstract: With the outgrowth of user-based web content, individuals can freely express their opinion in many domains. However, this would imply a huge cost to annotate training data for a large number of domains and prevent us from exploiting the information shared across various domains. As a result, cross-domain sentiment analysis is a challenging NLP task due to feature divergence and polarity divergence. However, to tackle this issue, this study presents a new model for cross-domain sentiment classification. This model is based on transferring features between source and target domains vice versa, using a Union of Conditional Probability (UCP) association measure. A Naive Bayes (NB) classifier and three feature selection methods (Information gain, Odd ratio, Chi-square) are used to evaluate the proposed model. Experimental results show that our model’s results were very promising and encourages us to further pursue this research.

How to cite this article
Tareq Al-Moslmi, Nazlia Omar, Mohammed Albared and Adel Al-Shabi, 2017. Feature Transfer Through New Statistical Association Measure for Cross-Domain Sentiment Analysis. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 164-170.

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