Entropy (Mar 2022)

Sentiment Classification Method Based on Blending of Emoticons and Short Texts

  • Haochen Zou,
  • Kun Xiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/e24030398
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 3
p. 398

Abstract

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With the development of Internet technology, short texts have gradually become the main medium for people to obtain information and communicate. Short text reduces the threshold of information production and reading by virtue of its short length, which is in line with the trend of fragmented reading in the context of the current fast-paced life. In addition, short texts contain emojis to make the communication immersive. However, short-text content means it contains relatively little information, which is not conducive to the analysis of sentiment characteristics. Therefore, this paper proposes a sentiment classification method based on the blending of emoticons and short-text content. Emoticons and short-text content are transformed into vectors, and the corresponding word vector and emoticon vector are connected into a sentencing matrix in turn. The sentence matrix is input into a convolution neural network classification model for classification. The results indicate that, compared with existing methods, the proposed method improves the accuracy of analysis.

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