In this paper, we present our approach to the task of binary sentiment classification for Italian reviews in healthcare domain. We first collected a new dataset for such domain. Then, we compared the results obtained by two different systems, one including a Support Vector Machine and one with BERT. For the first one, we linguistic pre–processed the dataset to extract hand-crafted features exploited by the classifier. For the second one, we oversampled the dataset to achieve better results. Our results show that the SVM-based system, without the worry of having to oversample, has better performance than the BERT-based one, achieving an F1-score of 91.21%.

A machine learning approach for sentiment analysis for Italian reviews in healthcare

Bacco L.;Merone M.
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2020-01-01

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In this paper, we present our approach to the task of binary sentiment classification for Italian reviews in healthcare domain. We first collected a new dataset for such domain. Then, we compared the results obtained by two different systems, one including a Support Vector Machine and one with BERT. For the first one, we linguistic pre–processed the dataset to extract hand-crafted features exploited by the classifier. For the second one, we oversampled the dataset to achieve better results. Our results show that the SVM-based system, without the worry of having to oversample, has better performance than the BERT-based one, achieving an F1-score of 91.21%.
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Descrizione: In this paper, we present our approach to the task of binary sentiment classification for Italian reviews in healthcare domain. We first collected a new dataset for such domain. Then, we compared the results obtained by two different systems, one including a Support Vector Machine and one with BERT. For the first one, we linguistic pre–processed the dataset to extract hand-crafted features exploited by the classifier. For the second one, we oversampled the dataset to achieve better results. Our results show that the SVMbased system, without the worry of having to oversample, has better performance than the BERT-based one, achieving an F1-score of 91.21%.
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