@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10012132, title = {1/Sigma Term Weighting Scheme for Sentiment Analysis}, author = {Hanan Alshaher and Jinsheng Xu}, country = {}, institution = {}, abstract = {Large amounts of data on the web can provide valuable information. For example, product reviews help business owners measure customer satisfaction. Sentiment analysis classifies texts into two polarities: positive and negative. This paper examines movie reviews and tweets using a new term weighting scheme, called one-over-sigma (1/sigma), on benchmark datasets for sentiment classification. The proposed method aims to improve the performance of sentiment classification. The results show that 1/sigma is more accurate than the popular term weighting schemes. In order to verify if the entropy reflects the discriminating power of terms, we report a comparison of entropy values for different term weighting schemes.}, journal = {International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering}, volume = {15}, number = {7}, year = {2021}, pages = {441 - 444}, ee = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10012132}, url = {https://publications.waset.org/vol/175}, bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/}, issn = {eISSN: 1307-6892}, publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology}, index = {Open Science Index 175, 2021}, }