Abstract
Automated analysis of the sentiments presented in online consumer feedbacks can facilitate both organizations’ business strategy development and individual consumers’ comparison shopping. Nevertheless, existing opinion mining methods either adopt a context-free sentiment classification approach or rely on a large number of manually annotated training examples to perform contextsensitive sentiment classification. Guided by the design science research methodology, we illustrate the design, development, and evaluation of a novel fuzzy domain ontology based contextsensitive opinion mining system. Our novel ontology extraction mechanism underpinned by a variant of Kullback-Leibler divergence can automatically acquire contextual sentiment knowledge across various product domains to improve the sentiment analysis processes. Evaluated based on a benchmark dataset and real consumer reviews collected from Amazon.com, our system shows remarkable performance improvement over the context-free baseline.
Recommended Citation
Lau, Raymond Y.K.; Lai, Chapmann C.L.; Ma, Jian; and Li, Yuefeng, "Automatic Domain Ontology Extraction for Context-Sensitive Opinion Mining" (2009). ICIS 2009 Proceedings. 35.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2009/35