Effectiveness of Normalization Over Processing of Textual Data Using Hybrid Approach Sentiment Analysis

Abstract

Various natural language processing tasks are carried out to feed into computerized decision support systems. Among these, sentiment analysis is gaining more attention. The majority of sentiment analysis relies on the social media content. This web content is highly un-normalized in nature. This hinders the performance of decision support system. To enhance the performance, it is required to process data efficiently. This article proposes a novel method of normalization of web data during the pre-processing phase. It is aimed to get better results for different natural language processing tasks. This research applies this technique on data for sentiment analysis. Performance of different learning models is analysed using precision, recall, f-measure, fallout for normalize and un-normalize sentiment analysis. Results shows after normalization, some documents shift their polarity i.e. negative to positive. Experimental results show normalized data processing outperforms un-normalized data processing with better accuracy.