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Published in: Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 3/2014

01-06-2014

Dream sentiment analysis using second order soft co-occurrences (SOSCO) and time course representations

Authors: Amir H. Razavi, Stan Matwin, Joseph De Koninck, Ray Reza Amini

Published in: Journal of Intelligent Information Systems | Issue 3/2014

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Abstract

We describe a project undertaken by an interdisciplinary team combining researchers in sleep psychology and in Natural Language Processing/Machine Learning. The goal is sentiment analysis on a corpus containing short textual descriptions of dreams. Dreams are categorized in a four-level scale of positive and negative sentiments. We chose a four scale annotation to reflect the sentiment strength and simplicity at the same time. The approach is based on a novel representation, taking into account the leading themes of the dream and the sequential unfolding of associated sentiments during the dream. The dream representation is based on three combined parts, two of which are automatically produced from the description of the dream. The first part consists of co-occurrence vector representation of dreams in order to detect sentiment levels in the dream texts. Those vectors unlike the standard Bag-of-words model capture non-local relationships between meanings of word in a corpus. The second part introduces the dynamic representation that captures the sentimental changes throughout the progress of the dream. The third part is the self-reported assessment of the dream by the dreamer according to eight given attributes (self-assessment is different in many respects from the dream’s sentiment classification). The three representations are subject to aggressive feature selection. Using an ensemble of classifiers on the combined 3-partite representation, the agreement between machine rating and the human judge scores on the four scales was 64 % which is in the range of human experts’ consensus in that domain. The accuracy of the system was 14 % more than previous results on the same task.

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Footnotes
1
General Inquirer Project., The General Inquirer; introduction to a computer-based system of content analysis, General Inquirer Project, Edinburgh, 1974.
 
2
In first order text representation, the text is represented only by the set of words that either directly occurred in the text or frequently co-occurred with them in the corpus; in second order text representation the text is represented indirectly via a vector average of its containing words co-occurrence vectors.
 
3
The word is supposed to be disambiguated over its several meanings or senses.
 
4
Unigrams are single terms which occur more than once, Bigrams are ordered pairs of words, and Co-occurrences are simply unordered bigrams.
 
5
The study has been carried out in the same dream laboratory and the same task definitions as this research.
 
6
(-) has been kept in order to individualize the compound words like: Multi-dimensions, Anti-oxidant, etc.
 
7
We recall that the applied notation for “Words” was an upper case ‘W’. Thus, the notation used for weight in this section is a lower case ‘w’- , the values for \(\left\{ {w_i } \right\}_{i\in \left\{ {1,\ldots ,6} \right\}} =\left( {100,\;35,\;15,\;10,\;3,\;1} \right)\) have been empirically set for the weights.
 
8
Classifiers which can handle numerous features.
 
9
The Link Grammar Parser is a syntactic parser of English, based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax which has been designed and developed at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science. For more details please refer to: http://​www.​link.​cs.​cmu.​edu/​link/​.
 
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Sentiment modifiers are taken into account.
 
11
Because of computational and consequently time complexity.
 
12
The simple classifiers used for the above classifiers were Multinomial logistic regression and J48 decision trees.
 
13
Literature shows 57 % to 80 % agreement in human judgment in this area and range.
 
14
Tagged by dreamers themselves.
 
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Title
Dream sentiment analysis using second order soft co-occurrences (SOSCO) and time course representations
Authors
Amir H. Razavi
Stan Matwin
Joseph De Koninck
Ray Reza Amini
Publication date
01-06-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems / Issue 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0925-9902
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7675
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-013-0273-4

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