Sentiment Classification for Movie Reviews in Chinese by Improved Semantic Oriented Approach

Sentiment classification aims at mining reviews of customers for a certain product by automatic classifying the reviews into positive or negative opinions. With the fast developing of World Wide Web applications, sentiment classification would have huge opportunity to help people automatic analysis of customers’ opinions from the web information. Automatic opinion mining will benefit to both consumers and sellers. Up to now, it is still a complicated task with great challenge. There are mainly two types of approaches for sentiment classification, machine learning methods and semantic orientation methods. Though some pioneer researches explored the approaches for English movie review classification, few jobs have been done on sentiment classification for Chinese reviews. The improved semantic approach for sentiment classification on movie reviews written in Chinese was proposed in this paper. Data experiment shows the capability of this approach.