README.md

twitter-sent-dnn

Twitter Sentiment Analysis using Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)

What is it

A web app that allows to:

• predict sentiment "positiveness" for tweets
• gain an overview of the "positiveness" of hashtags

Demo

Click here

Algorithm

Please refer to A Convolutional Neural Network for Modelling Sentences for more information about the algorithm.

Technical choices

• Tornado as the web framework
• Theano as the neural network training implementation
• Scipy as the neural network classification(online version) implementation

Training techniques

1. Fan-in, fan-out initialization
2. Dropout
3. AdaDelta

Contributors

Han Xiao and Yao Lu