Sentiment Analysis of Danmaku Videos Based on Naïve Bayes and Sentiment Dictionary

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 8; pp. 75073 - 75084
• Main Authors: Li, Zhi, Li, Rui, Jin, Guanghao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Classification; Danmaku reviews; Data analysis; Data mining; Dictionaries; Feature extraction; Naïve Bayes; Semantics; Sentiment analysis; sentiment dictionary; Support vector machines; Video data; Videos
• ISSN: 2169-3536; 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2986582

Danmaku video provides a platform for users to communicate online while watching videos. Danmaku is a live commenting function where the comments related to the video being screened are created by users and prominently shown in real-time on the video screen. These live comments contain complex and rich sentiments, reflecting users' instant opinions and feelings on video programs. In some sense, danmaku provides emotional timing information about video data, and it also offers an innovative mean to analyze video data. However, existing sentiment classification methods are not suitable for danmaku data analysis. To solve this problem, this paper constructs a danmaku sentiment dictionary and presents a new method using sentiment dictionary and Naïve Bayes for the sentiment analysis of danmaku reviews. The method is greatly helpful in supervising the overall emotional orientation of a danmaku video and predicting its popularity. Through the processes of extracting emotional information from a danmaku video, classifying sentiment and visualizing data, the time distribution of the seven sentiment dimensions can be obtained. In addition, a weight calculation can be conducted for classifying the sentiment polarity of danmaku reviews. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a significant effect on sentiment score and polarity detection.