Analyzing Sentiment of Movie Reviews in Bangla by Applying Machine Learning Techniques

This paper proposes a process of sentiment analysis of movie reviews written in Bangla language. This process can automate the analysis of audience’s reaction towards a specific movie or TV show. With more and more people expressing their opinions openly in the social networking sites, analyzing the sentiment of comments made about a specific movie can indicate how well the movie is being accepted by the general public. The dataset used in this experiment was collected and labeled manually from publicly available comments and posts from social media websites. Using Support Vector Machine algorithm, this model achieves 88.90% accuracy on the test set and by using Long Short Term Memory network [1] the model manages to achieve 82.42% accuracy. Furthermore, a comparison with some other machine learning approaches is presented in this paper. ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-7281-5241-7, 978-1-7281-5242-4