Online Multiscale-Data Classification Based on Multikernel Adaptive Filtering with Application to Sentiment Analysis

Ran Iwamoto, Masahiro Yukawa

Abstract: We present an online method for multiscale data classification, using the multikernel adaptive filtering framework. The target application is Twitter sentiment analysis, which is a notoriously challenging task of natural language processing. This is because (i) each tweet is typically short, and (ii) domain-specific expressions tend to be used. The efficacy of the proposed multiscale online method is studied with dataset of Twitter. Simulation results show that the proposed approach achieves a higher F1 score than the other online-classification methods, and also outperforms the nonlinear support vector machine.