I am a beginner at data science, and I am working on a text analytics/sentiment analysis project with tweets. what i have been trying to do is to perform some dimension reduction on my tweets training set, and feed the training set into a NaiveBayes learner, and use the learned NaiveBayes to predict the sentiment on the testing tweet set.
I have been following the steps in this article:
their explanation is kind of too brief for a beginner like me.
I have used the lsa() to create a, what's labeled as "Large LSAspace (3 elements)" in RStudio. And following their example, I've created 3 more data frames:
lsa.train.tk = as.data.frame(lsa.train$tk)
lsa.train.dk = as.data.frame(lsa.train$dk)
lsa.train.sk = as.data.frame(lsa.train$sk)
when i view the lsa.train.tk data, it looks like this (lsa.train.dk looks pretty similar to this matrix):
and my lsa.train.sk looks like following:
my question is, how do i interpret such information? How can i utilize this information to create something that I can feed into my NaiveBayes learner? I tried just using the lsa.train.sk for the NaiveBayes learner, but I cannot think of any good explanation that can justify what I've tried. Any help would be much appreciated!
EDIT: What I've done so far:
- making everything into term document matrix
- pass in the matrix into the NaiveBayes learner
- predict using the learned algorithm
my problems are:
accuracy is only 50%... and I realized that it labels everything as positive sentiment (so I could have gotten 1% accuracy if my test set only contains negative sentiment tweets).
current code is not scalable. since it utilizes large matrices, I can only handle up to 3.5k rows of data. more than that, my computer would crash. thus I wanted to do a dimensional reduction so that I can handle up to more data (such as 10k or 100k rows of tweets)
