Exploiting Deep Learning for Persian Sentiment Analysis

Dashtipour, K.; Gogate, M.; Adeel, A.; Ieracitano, C.; Larijani, H.; Hussain, A.

Abstract

The rise of social media is enabling people to freely express their opinions about products and services. The aim of sentiment analysis is to automatically determine subject’s sentiment (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral) towards a particular aspect such as topic, product, movie, news etc. Deep learning has recently emerged as a powerful machine learning technique to tackle a growing demand of accurate sentiment analysis. However, limited work has been conducted to apply deep learning algorithms to languages other than English, such as Persian. In this work, two deep learning models (deep autoencoders and deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs)) are developed and applied to a novel Persian movie reviews dataset. The proposed deep learning models are analyzed and compared with the state-of-the-art shallow multilayer perceptron (MLP) based machine learning model. Simulation results demonstrate the enhanced performance of deep learning over state-of-the-art MLP.

Citation

Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Adeel, A., Ieracitano, C., Larijani, H., & Hussain, A. (2018, July). Exploiting Deep Learning for Persian Sentiment Analysis. Presented at 9th International Conference, BICS 2018, Xi'an, China

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 9th International Conference, BICS 2018
• Start Date: Jul 7, 2018
• End Date: Jul 8, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Oct 6, 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Deposit Date: Sep 27, 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 597-604
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 10989
• Series ISSN: 0302-9743
• Book Title: Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00563-4_58
• Keywords: Persian sentiment analysis, Persian movie reviews, Deep learning
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1792264