Research Article

Anticipating Corporate Financial Performance from CEO Letters Utilizing Sentiment Analysis

Table 2

Related work of machine-learning approach in sentiment analysis.

AuthorsObjectivesModelsData sourceEvaluation methodData setAccuracy (percent)Precision (percent)RecallF1

Bruce and Wiebe [33]Assign sentences subjectivity using 1 to 4 scaleLCA14 articles in Wall Street Journal Treebank Corpus10-fold cross validation486 subjective, 515 objective72.17N/AN/AN/A

Pang et al. [30]Assign docs sentimentsSVM, NB, MEMovie reviews3-fold cross validation700 (+)77–82.9N/AN/AN/A
700 (−)

Bo and Lee [1]Assign docs sentimentsSVM, NBMovie reviews10-fold cross validation1000 (+)86.4–87.2N/AN/AN/A
1000 (−)

Gamon and Michael [34]Assign docs sentiments using 4-point scaleSVMCustomer feedback10-fold cross validationN/A77.5N/AN/AN/A
10-fold cross validationN/A69.5N/AN/AN/A

Yang et al. [35]Assign topic sentimentsClass association rulesConsumer reviewsMacroaveragedN/AN/A67.6477.572.26
Microaveraged (microaveraging means given a set of confusion tables, a new two-by-two contingency table is generated, each cell in the new table represents the sum of the number of documents from within the set of tables)N/A67.4774.472.26
NBMacroaveragedN/A73.9666.7970.19
MicroaveragedN/A68.366.1167.19

Troussas et al. [36]Assign docs sentimentsNBFacebook 7000 status updates from 90 users3-fold cross validation1131 (+)N/A776872
1131 (−)

Singh et al. [37]Assign docs sentimentsNBProduct review, movie review4-fold cross validationN/A45.683.1N/A81.2
J-4896.787.7N/A91.7
BFTree89.288.3N/A72.1
OneR9091.3N/A97
Rathi [38]Assign adjectives ±SVM + KNN, hybridTweetN/A267 (+)76.17N/AN/AN/A
264 (−)
168 (0)