Chinese Long Text Sentiment Analysis Based on the Combination of Title and Topic Sentences

Abstract

The long text in our study involves a complete discourse structure with a title and approximately 1500 Chinese characters within. Long text sentiment analysis has faced a lot of difficulties on the grounds that a long text often comprises multiple sentiments and diverse focuses. This paper proposes to analyze the sentiment of long texts based on the combination of title and topic sentence. Based on the fine-labeled texts, the analysis extracted the important features of topic sentences, such as location, feature words, degree of topic relevance and emotional words. Then two topic sentences were extracted from each text that can best represent the topic through weighted calculation of these multi-dimensional features. Next this paper combined the two topic sentences with the title to complete the sentiment analysis of the whole document. The topic sentence extraction method has achieved good results in the task of extracting and judging key emotional sentences of news in the 6th COAE (Chinese Opinion Analysis Evaluation) (2014), which shows that the method is effective. This method has been put into practice in the National Language Public Opinion Monitoring system, with an accuracy of 0.82.