@conference { ISI:000316869203071,
	title = {An empirical study to address the problem of Unbalanced Data Sets in Sentiment Classification},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS 2012 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC)},
	series = {IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics Conference Proceedings},
	year = {2012},
	note = {IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Seoul, SOUTH KOREA, OCT 14-17, 2012},
	pages = {3298-3303},
	publisher = {IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Soc (SMC); IEEE; Korea Univ; Korean Soc Cognit Sci (KSCS); Korean Inst Informat Scientists and Engineers Soc Computat Intelligence (KSCI); Hi Seoul; Korea Tourism Org; Asian Off Aerosp Res and Dev (AOARD); Natl Res Fdn K},
	organization = {IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Soc (SMC); IEEE; Korea Univ; Korean Soc Cognit Sci (KSCS); Korean Inst Informat Scientists and Engineers Soc Computat Intelligence (KSCI); Hi Seoul; Korea Tourism Org; Asian Off Aerosp Res and Dev (AOARD); Natl Res Fdn K},
	abstract = {With the emergence of Web 2.0, Sentiment Analysis is receiving more and more attention. Several interesting works were performed to address different issues in Sentiment Analysis. Nevertheless, the problem of Unbalanced Data Sets was not enough tackled within this research area. This paper presents the study we have carried out to address the problem of unbalanced data sets in supervised sentiment classification in a multi-lingual context. We propose three different methods to under-sample the majority class documents. These methods are Remove Similar, Remove Farthest and Remove by Clustering. Our goal is to compare the effectiveness of the proposed methods with the common random under-sampling. We also aim to evaluate the behavior of the classifiers toward different under-sampling rates. We use three different common classifiers, namely Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machines and k-Nearest Neighbors. The experiments are carried out on two Arabic data sets and an English data set. We show that the four under-sampling methods are typically competitive. Naive Bayes is shown as insensitive to unbalanced data sets. But Support Vector Machines seems to be highly sensitive to unbalanced data sets; k-Nearest Neighbors shows a slight sensitivity to imbalance in comparison with Support Vector Machines.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-1714-6},
	issn = {1062-922X},
	author = {Mountassir, Asmaa and Benbrahim, Houda and Berrada, Ilham}
}
