6 Sentiment classification: Large movie-review dataset

This chapter covers

  • Using text and word frequency (Bag of Words) to represent sentiment
  • Building sentiment classifier using logistic regression and with softmax
  • Measuring classification accuracy
  • Computing ROC curve and measure classifier effectiveness
  • Submitting your results to the Kaggle challenge for movie reviews

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