Simple, Good Sentiment Classification

Author(s): Pratish

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Sentiment classification using MultinomialNB

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In this article, I am taking one of the state-of-the-art papers[1] which takes on classifying sentiments using Multinomial NB. After finishing this article, you would be able to appreciate how techniques as simple as Naive Bayes can be super effective in some of the classification tasks.

In his book[2], Manning et al introduce multinomial Naive Bayes or MNB model, a probabilistic learning method. According to the Naive Bayes, the probability of a document d being in class c is computed as:

Source: Manning, C., Raghavan, P.,… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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