A Rule-Based Approach to Sentiment Classification of Chinese Microblogging Texts

Chinese microblogging texts are always short and casual, which bring some troubles to the traditional sentiment classification methods based on learning. To overcome this problem, we use a rule-based approach to classify the sentiment of Chinese microblogging texts. According to the characteristics of Chinese microblogging texts, we construct a thesaurus of subjective words for it, summarize the basic semantic rules expressing emotion and propose a rule-based approach to sentiment classification of Chinese microblogging texts. Finally, we compare our approach with a SVM-based approach. Our rule-based approach achieves an accuracy of 0.865, which is better than that of SVM-based approach.