Deep learning based bi-polar sentiment classification of movie reviews in Hindi

Abstract

With evolving technology, Hindi web content is growing considerably and catching popularity as the larger audience feels more connected and heard using their native language. A volcanic growth in online movie reviews (MRs) in Hindi has been observed lately; manually analyzing them is impossible. Hence, the research problem of automatic organization and classification of Hindi reviews is apparent as this can help viewers decide whether a movie is worth watching or not. This work focuses on developing a deep learning-based system for bi-polar sentiment classification of MRs for resource deficient language – Hindi. To this end, a primary Hindi movie review (MR) corpus is made and manually annotated with binary polarity class labels - positive or negative. The corpus is preprocessed using the preprocessing steps, and Random Word Embeddings (WEs) are utilized for feature extraction. This paper proposes an ensemble CNN_BiGRU, which is an integration of 1D CNN with BiGRU for the bipolar classification of Hindi MRs. To prove our ensemble’s efficacy; other widely used mainstream deep learning models (DLMs) such as Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based models – Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), are also applied and compared with proposed ensemble using average classification accuracy. Empirical results show the effectiveness of the proposed ensemble in achieving a reasonably good average accuracy of 89.366%. The results indicate that proposed CNN_BiGRU compares favorably to the state-of-the-art DLMs applied and hence gives an effective solution for sentence-level bi-polar classification of MRs in a resource deficient scenario.