Research Article
A Hybrid System for Subjectivity Analysis
Samir Rustamov
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ADA University, Ahmadbey Aghaoglu Street 11, Bakı AZ1008, Baku, Azerbaijan
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Institute of Control Systems of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh Street 9, AZ1141, Baku, Azerbaijan
Correspondence should be addressed to Samir Rustamov; samir.rustamov@gmail.com
Received 30 June 2017; Accepted 3 May 2018; Published 3 June 2018
Academic Editor: Ferdinando Di Martino
Copyright © 2018 Samir Rustamov. his is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We suggested diferent structured hybrid systems for the sentence-level subjectivity analysis based on three supervised machine
learning algorithms, namely, Hidden Markov Model, Fuzzy Control System, and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System. he
suggested feature extraction algorithm in our experiment computes a feature vector using statistical textual terms frequencies in
a training dataset not having the use of any lexical knowledge except tokenization. Taking into consideration this fact, the above-
mentioned methods may be employed in other languages as these methods do not utilize the morphological, syntactical, and lexical
analysis in the classiication problems.
1. Introduction
Identiication of subjective data from web documents having
opinions within are gaining incrementing interest. Opinions
are oten views formed by individuals about their sentiments,
appraisals, or feelings, etc., not necessarily based on fact or
knowledge. Identiication of subjectivity attempts to recog-
nize if this written piece of work conveys opinions (personal)
or a body of objective facts [1]. his analysis has been utilized
in many natural language and text mining solutions. With
the aim of generating more instructive data, subjectivity
detection has been employed as a primary siting stage in a
lot of natural language processing assignments.
hrough our experimentation we are aiming to work out
techniques in order to establish classiiers able to identify
subjective expressions from objective ones. By means of
language independent feature weighting, in the experiment
the sentence-level subjectivity classiication is attained. A
subjectivity database from the opinions about ilms of “Rotten
Tomatoes” [2] was deployed as an experiment.
In the paper, we suggested diferent structures of hybrid
systems based on various supervised machine learning
algorithms such as Hidden Markov Model (HMM), Adap-
tive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), and Fuzzy
Control System (FCS) which achieved suicient results.
hese machine learning methods have been employed for
subjectivity analysis individually [3, 4] and our aim is to
improve performance of classiication by using hybrid sys-
tems, which is successfully applied by us in sentiment analysis
and natural language call routing problem [5, 6]. Our feature
extraction algorithm computes a feature vector using the
statistical textual terms frequencies in the corpus not having
the use of any lexical knowledge except tokenization. Taking
into consideration this fact, the above-mentioned methods
may be employed in other languages as these methods do
not utilize the lexical, grammatical, and syntactical analysis
within the classiication process.
2. Related Work
With the aim of recognizing the subjective data in written
piece of work or speech, various nonsimilar supervised
and unsupervised learning algorithms have been recently
analyzed.
A bootstrap technique was employed by Rilof and Wiebe
[7] with the aim of studying subjectivity classiiers from
a nonannotated texts collection. An identical method was
applied by Wiebe and Rilof [8]; however, they studied
objective sentences aside from subjective sentences.
With the objective to classify subjective and objective sen-
tences, a MinCut based algorithm was deployed by Pang and
Lee [9]. hrough this experiment they targeted eliminating
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Advances in Fuzzy Systems
Volume 2018, Article ID 2371621, 9 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/2371621