June 19-24, 2011 | Andrew L. Maas, Raymond E. Daly, Peter T. Pham, Dan Huang, Andrew Y. Ng, and Christopher Potts
The paper presents a model for learning word vectors that capture both semantic and sentiment information. The model combines unsupervised and supervised techniques to learn word vectors that reflect rich lexical meanings and sentiment content. The unsupervised component uses a probabilistic model of documents to learn word representations, while the supervised component incorporates sentiment annotations to enhance the model's ability to capture sentiment information. The model leverages continuous and multi-dimensional sentiment data, as well as non-sentiment annotations, to improve its performance. The authors evaluate the model using small, widely used sentiment and subjectivity corpora and find it outperforms several existing methods for sentiment classification. They also introduce a large dataset of movie reviews to serve as a more robust benchmark for future research. The paper discusses related work, including probabilistic topic modeling and vector-space models, and provides a detailed explanation of the model's architecture and learning process. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model in various sentiment classification tasks.The paper presents a model for learning word vectors that capture both semantic and sentiment information. The model combines unsupervised and supervised techniques to learn word vectors that reflect rich lexical meanings and sentiment content. The unsupervised component uses a probabilistic model of documents to learn word representations, while the supervised component incorporates sentiment annotations to enhance the model's ability to capture sentiment information. The model leverages continuous and multi-dimensional sentiment data, as well as non-sentiment annotations, to improve its performance. The authors evaluate the model using small, widely used sentiment and subjectivity corpora and find it outperforms several existing methods for sentiment classification. They also introduce a large dataset of movie reviews to serve as a more robust benchmark for future research. The paper discusses related work, including probabilistic topic modeling and vector-space models, and provides a detailed explanation of the model's architecture and learning process. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model in various sentiment classification tasks.