Enhancing sentiment classification performance using hybrid Query Expansion Ranking and Binary Particle Swarm Optimization with Adaptive Inertia Weights

Abstract

Machine learning-based sentiment classification is the best-performing method to understand public sentiment. However, the method has some problems, such as noisy features and high-dimensional feature space which affect the sentiment classification performance. To address the problems, this paper proposes a new feature selection using hybrid Query Expansion Ranking and Binary Particle Swarm Optimization with Adaptive Inertia Weights. The proposed method was validated using five tweet datasets on different topics both in Indonesian and English, and compared with state-of-the-art of filter and wrapper-based feature selection methods. Experimental results show the proposed method significantly improves sentiment classification performance and decrease computational time.

Keywords

• Feature selection
• Sentiment classification
• Machine learning
• Query Expansion Ranking
• Binary Particle Swarm Optimization