Performance Analysis of Multiple Classifiers using different Term Weighting Schemes for Sentiment Analysis

Information sharing and review platforms has generated large volumes of opinionated data which is usually in unstructured form. With the help of Sentiment Analysis, this data can be transformed into structured data which can be useful for commercial applications such as product reviews and feedback, marketing analysis, etc. The purpose of this work is to analyzes the performance of three classifiers(SVM, Naive Bayes, and Logistic Regression) with respect to providing positive or negative sentiment for three different scenarios(Movie Reviews, Election Opinions, and Food Reviews). The three classifiers are compared using fixed set of preprocessing steps and four different weighting schemes(Term frequency inverse document frequency (TFIDF), Term frequency inverse class frequency (TFICF), Mutual Information (MI), and X ² statistic (CHI)). The controlled experimental results showed that Logistic Regression classifier performs better in terms of overall accuracy when MI is used as weighting scheme.