Sentiment classification for early detection of health alerts in the chemical textile domain

Authors

  • Javi Fern´andez Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante
  • Carolina Prieto AITEX, Textile Industry Research Association
  • Elena Lloret Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante
  • José M. G´omez Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante
  • Patricio Mart´ınez-Barco Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante
  • Manuel Palomar Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante

Abstract

In the chemical textile domain experts have to analyse chemical components and substances that might be harmful for their usage in clothing and textiles. Part of this analysis is performed searching opinions and reports people have expressed concerning these products in the Social Web. However, this type of information on the Internet is not as frequent for this domain as for others, so its detection and classification is difficult and time-consuming. Consequently, problems associated to the use of chemical substances in textiles may not be detected early enough, and could lead to health problems, such as allergies or burns. In this paper, we propose a framework able to detect, retrieve, and classify subjective sentences related to the chemical textile domain, that could be integrated into a wider health surveillance system. We also describe the creation of several datasets with opinions from this domain, the experiments performed using machine learning techniques and different lexical resources such as WordNet, and the evaluation focusing on the sentiment classification, and complaint detection (i.e., negativity). Despite the challenges involved in this domain, our approach obtains promising results with an F-score of 65% for polarity classification and 82% for complaint detection.

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2013-12-01

How to Cite

Fern´andez, J., Prieto, C., Lloret, E., G´omez, J. M., Mart´ınez-Barco, P., & Palomar, M. (2013). Sentiment classification for early detection of health alerts in the chemical textile domain. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, 3, 135–147. Retrieved from https://clinjournal.org/clinj/article/view/30

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