Mining Sports Articles using Cuckoo Search and Tabu Search with SMOTE Preprocessing Technique

Sentiment analysis is one of the most popular domains for natural language text classification, crucial for improving information extraction. However, massive data availability is one of the biggest problems for opinion mining due to accuracy considerations. Selecting high discriminative features from an opinion mining database is still an ongoing research topic. This study presents a two-stage heuristic feature selection method to classify sports articles using Tabu search and Cuckoo search via Lévy flight. Lévy flight is used to prevent the solution from being trapped at local optima. Comparative results on a benchmark dataset prove that our method shows significant improvements in the overall accuracy from 82.6% up to 89.5%.