Abstract
Nowadays, a series of pioneering studies provide the evidence that quantum probability theory can be applied in information retrieval as a mathematical framework, such as Quantum Language Model (QLM) and its variants. In these studies, the density matrix, which is defined on the quantum probabilistic space, is used to represent query and document. However, these studies are only designed for information retrieval tasks, which are unable to model sentiment information. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of quantum probability theory for twitter sentiment analysis, and propose a density matrix based unsupervised sentiment analysis approach. The main idea is to artificially create two sentiment dictionaries, generate density matrices of documents and dictionaries using an extended QLM, then employ the quantum relative entropy to judge the similarity between density matrices of documents and dictionaries. Extensive experiments are conducted on two widely used twitter datasets, which are the Obama-McCain Debate (OMD) dataset and Sentiment Strength Twitter Dataset (SS-Tweet). The experimental results show that our approach significantly outperforms a number of baselines, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed density matrix based sentiment analysis approach.
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This work is supported in part by the Chinese National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program, grant No. 2014CB744604), Natural Science Foundation of China (grant No. U1636203, 61272265, 61402324), and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721321.
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Zhang, Y., Song, D., Li, X., Zhang, P. (2018). Unsupervised Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Posts Using Density Matrix Representation. In: Pasi, G., Piwowarski, B., Azzopardi, L., Hanbury, A. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10772. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_24
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