Cellular Automaton–Based Sentiment Analysis for Bipolar Classification of Reviews
Elizabeth M J
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Calicut
Kerala, India
Parimal Pal Chaudhuri
Retired Professor
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Raju Hazari
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Calicut
Kerala, India
Abstract
One of the main goals of sentiment analysis is to analyze human perception to continuously adapt to each person’s demands. The information gathered is structured to understand the mood or emotional tone of the reviews and comments. In every aspect of society, there is always an opportunity for opinions and suggestions from the public. So, the quality of the services provided by various resources can considerably increase if we can determine whether those thoughts are positive, negative or neutral. In this paper, we employ cellular automata (CAs) to categorize the reviews as positive or negative. The fundamental advantage of the suggested technique is that there is less need to be concerned about the linguistic characteristics of human languages. The proposed method performs better by leveraging a variety of parameters that are extracted by analyzing cycle length (CL) graphs generated using CL signals produced by elementary CAs (ECAs) without employing any form of pre-trained language model. We evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed cellular automaton–based machine learning (CAML) classifier by assessing certain parameters such as recall, precision, F1 score and accuracy. Our method achieves a maximum accuracy of 92.44% for the sentiment tweet dataset. We compared the proposed technique with all existing machine learning models, as well as recent methodologies employed in the field. The suggested method performs well in predicting the positive and negative classes of sentiments using CAs.
Keywords: elementary cellular automata; ECA; machine learning; sentiment analysis; rule-based approach; text classification
Cite this publication as:
Elizabeth M J, P. P. Chaudhuri and R. Hazari, “Cellular Automaton–Based Sentiment Analysis for Bipolar Classification
of Reviews,” Complex Systems, 34(1), 2025 pp. 29–57.
https://doi.org/10.25088/ComplexSystems.34.1.29
