Chinese Text Sentiment Analysis Utilizing Emotion Degree Lexicon and Fuzzy Semantic Model

Text on the web has become a valuable source for mining and analyzing user opinions on any topic. Non-native English speakers heavily support the growing use of Network media especially in Chinese. Many sentiment analysis studies have shown that a polarity lexicon can effectively improve the classification consequences. Social media, where users spontaneously generated content have become important materials for tracking people’s opinions and sentiments. Meanwhile, the mathematical models of fuzzy semantics have provided a formal explanation for the fuzzy nature of human language processing. This paper investigated the limitations of traditional sentiment analysis approaches and proposed an effective Chinese sentiment analysis approach based on emotion degree lexicon. Inspired by various social cognitive theories, basic emotion value lexicon and social evidence lexicon were combined to improve sentiment analysis consequences. By using the composite lexicon and fuzzy semantic model, this new sentiment analysis approach obtains significant improvement in Chinese text. Chinese Text Sentiment Analysis Utilizing Emotion Degree Lexicon and Fuzzy Semantic Model