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Sentiment analysis is a popular application of the Naive Bayes algorithm, which is used to determine the sentiment of a text, whether it is positive, negative, or neutral. In this article, we will demonstrate how to apply the Naive Bayes algorithm to a dataset of movie reviews to predict the sentiment of each review.
Step 1: Data Preparation
The first step is to prepare the data by downloading a dataset of movie reviews. We will be using the “IMDB Movie Reviews Dataset” which contains 50,000 reviews with equal numbers of positive and negative reviews. We will divide the dataset into two parts: a training set and a test set. The training set will be used to train the model, and the test set will be used to evaluate the accuracy of the model.
Step 2: Text Preprocessing
The next step is to preprocess the text by removing stop words, and punctuation marks, and converting all words to lowercase. We will use the Python Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) library to perform text preprocessing. The following code shows how to preprocess the text:
import nltk
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer
import string
stop_words = set(stopwords.words('english'))
lemmatizer = WordNetLemmatizer()def preprocess_text(text):
text = text.lower()
text = text.translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation))
tokens = word_tokenize(text)
filtered_tokens = [lemmatizer.lemmatize(word) for word in tokens if word not in stop_words]
return " ".join(filtered_tokens)
Step 3: Feature Extraction
The next step is to extract features from the preprocessed text. We will use the bag-of-words model to represent each review as a vector of word frequencies. We will also use the term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) to weigh the features. The following code shows how to extract features from the preprocessed text:
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer()
X_train = vectorizer.fit_transform(train_data['review'].apply(preprocess_text))
X_test = vectorizer.transform(test_data['review'].apply(preprocess_text))
y_train = train_data['sentiment']
y_test = test_data['sentiment']
Step 4: Training the Model
The next step is to train the Naive Bayes model on the training set. We will use the Multinomial Naive Bayes algorithm which is suitable for discrete data like word frequencies. The following code shows how to train the model:
from sklearn.naive_bayes import MultinomialNB
clf = MultinomialNB()
clf.fit(X_train, y_train)
Step 5: Evaluating the Model
The final step is to evaluate the accuracy of the model on the test set. We will use the accuracy score, precision, recall, and F1-score to evaluate the performance of the model. The following code shows how to evaluate the model:
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score
y_pred = clf.predict(X_test)
print("Accuracy: ", accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred))
print("Precision: ", precision_score(y_test, y_pred, average='weighted'))
print("Recall: ", recall_score(y_test, y_pred, average='weighted'))
print("F1-score: ", f1_score(y_test, y
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