Tackling Unconventional Data: A Guide to Optimizing Sentiment Analysis Models for Atypical Text

I recently had the opportunity to develop a sentiment analysis tool for my company. Although I had some prior experience in this area, I quickly realized that I had more to learn. After extensive research and experimentation, we achieved the desired results. In this post, I’ll share my journey, thought process, and the techniques I employed to meet our objectives. Identifying the Issue & Setting the Stage Our startup specializes in delivering top-notch qualitative coding services to businesses, presenting the results on a user-friendly dashboard for our clients....

April 13, 2023 · 17 min · 3426 words

NLP Series: ABC of Sentiment Analysis

Github Repo | Full-code notebook In this post, I will work my way into basic Sentiment Analysis methods and experiment with some techniques. I will use the data from the IMDB review dataset acquired from Kaggle. We will be examining/going over the following: Data preprocessing for sentiment analysis 2 different feature representations: Sparse vector representation Word frequency counts Comparison using: Logistic regression Naive Bayes Feature Representation Your model will be, at most, as good as your data, and your data will be only as good as you understand them to be, hence the features....

November 1, 2022 · 12 min · 2385 words