SSA-UO: Unsupervised twitter sentiment analysis

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This paper describes the specifications and results of SSA-UO, unsupervised system, presented in SemEval 2013 for Sentiment Analysis in Twitter (Task 2) (Wilson et al., 2013). The proposal system includes three phases: data preprocessing, contextual word polarity detection and message classification. The preprocessing phase comprises treatment of emoticon, slang terms, lemmatization and POS-tagging. Word polarity detection is carried out taking into account the sentiment associated with the context in which it appears. For this, we use a new contextual sentiment classification method based on coarse-grained word sense disambiguation, using WordNet (Miller, 1995) and a coarse-grained sense inventory (sentiment inventory) built up from SentiWordNet (Baccianella et al., 2010). Finally, the overall sentiment is determined using a rule-based classifier. As it may be observed, the results obtained for Twitter and SMS sentiment classification are good considering that our proposal is unsupervised.

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Ortega, R., Fonseca, A., Gutiérrez, Y., & Montoyo, A. (2013). SSA-UO: Unsupervised twitter sentiment analysis. In *SEM 2013 - 2nd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (Vol. 2, pp. 501–507). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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