A Sentiment Classification Model Based on Multiple Multi-classifier Systems

With the fast development of the Internet, especially the development of the Web technique, more and more people express their views on the Internet. The content of these views involve various aspects of our life, such as books, movies, musics, policies, commodities, technical services, etc. Since these views are usually subjective and possess great potential commercial and social value, the study of sentiment analysis is followed. At the early stage of sentiment analysis, researchers used lexicon based method to solve sentiment analysis problem. With the improvement in machine learning and Natural Language Processing technology, machine learning based method are becoming more and more popular in the field of sentiment analysis. In this study, we propose an ensemble sentiment classification model based on three multi-classifier systems. The proposed model uses majority voting as an ensemble method of multiple multi-classifier systems. The effectiveness of the classification model is verified on five public datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed model is superior to traditional sentiment classification methods and simple multi-classifier systems in the performance of classification accuracy. By using the sentiment classification model proposed in this paper, the accuracy improvement in different domains also show that our proposed model has certain generalization ability.