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R Deep Learning Projects

You're reading from   R Deep Learning Projects Master the techniques to design and develop neural network models in R

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478403
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yuxi (Hayden) Liu Yuxi (Hayden) Liu
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Sentiment Analysis with Word Embeddings

In this chapter, we turn to the problem of sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis is an umbrella term for a number of techniques to figure out how a speaker feels about a certain topic or piece of content.

A vanilla case study of sentiment analysis is polarity. Given a document or text string (for instance, a Tweet, a review, or a comment on a social network), the aim is to determine whether the author feels good, bad, or neutral about the item or topic in question.  

At first look, this problem might seem trivial: A lookup table with positive and negative words, and simply counting the word frequencies should do, right? Not so fast. Here are a few examples of why this is tricky:

  • Their decadent desserts made me hate myself
  • You should try this place if you love cold food
  • Disliking cake is not really my thing

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