Biographies, Bollywood, Boom-boxes and Blenders: Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification

Automatic sentiment classification has been extensively studied and applied in recent years. However, sentiment is expressed differently in different domains, and annotating corpora for every possible domain of interest is impractical. We investigate domain adaptation for sentiment classifiers, focusing on online reviews for different types of products. First, we extend to sentiment classification the recently-proposed structural correspondence learning (SCL) algorithm, reducing the relative error due to adaptation between domains by an average of 30 % over the original SCL algorithm and 46 % over a supervised baseline. Second, we identify a measure of domain similarity that correlates well with the potential…