A study of supervised term weighting scheme for sentiment analysis

Term weighting is a strategy that assigns weights to terms to improve the performance of sentiment analysis and other text mining tasks. In this paper, we propose a supervised term weighting scheme based on two basic factors: Importance of a term in a document (ITD) and importance of a term for expressing sentiment (ITS), to improve the performance of analysis. For ITD, we explore three definitions based on term frequency. Then, seven statistical functions are employed to learn the ITS of each term from training documents with category labels. Compared with the previous unsupervised term weighting schemes originated from information retrieval, our scheme can make full use of the available labeling information to assign appropriate weights to terms. We have experimentally evaluated the proposed method against the state-of-the-art method. The experimental results show that our method outperforms the method and produce the best accuracy on two of three data sets.