@article{M7E1A88CE, title = "Measuring Semantic Orientation of Words using Temporal Difference Learning", journal = "Journal of KIISE, JOK", year = "2018", issn = "2383-630X", doi = "10.5626/JOK.2018.45.12.1287", author = "Youngsam Kim,Hyopil Shin", keywords = "temporal-difference learning,reinforcement learning,semantic orientation of words,incremental processing,asynchronous parallel processing", abstract = "Temporal-difference(TD) learning is a core algorithm of reinforcement learning, which employs models of Markov process. In the TD methods, rewards are always discounted by a discount factor and states receive these discounted values as their rewards. In this paper, we attempted to estimate a semantic orientation of words in texts using the TD-based methods and examined the effectiveness of the proposed methods by comparing them to existing feature selection methods (indirect approach) and Bayes probabilities (direct approach). The TD-based estimation would be useful for tasks of social opinion mining, since TD learning is inherently an on-line method. In order to show our approach is scalable to huge data, the estimation method is also evaluated using asynchronous parallel processing." }