A hybrid sentiment analysis method for Turkish

Authors : Buket ERŞAHİN, Özlem AKTAŞ, Deniz KILINÇ, Mustafa ERŞAHİN

Pages : 1780-1793

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This paper presents a hybrid methodology for Turkish sentiment analysis, which combines the lexicon-based and machine learning insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ML);-based approaches. On the lexicon-based side, we use a sentiment dictionary that is extended with a synonyms lexicon. Besides this, we tackle the classification problem with three supervised classifiers, naive Bayes, support vector machines, and J48, on the ML side. Our hybrid methodology combines these two approaches by generating a new lexicon-based value according to our feature generation algorithm and feeds it as one of the features to machine learning classifiers. Despite the linguistic challenges caused by the morphological structure of Turkish, the experimental results show that it improves the accuracy by 7 % on average.
Keywords : Sentiment analysis, opinion mining, social media, natural language processing