Evaluating Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis Methods for Small Datasets on Low Compute Devices
摘要
This paper evaluates the effectiveness and computational efficiency of four lexicon-based sentiment analysis methods: AFINN, VADER, TextBlob, and SentiWordNet, on a resource-limited target device. We assessed each method’s sentiment classification accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, memory consumption, and processing time on a limited annotated dataset. TextBlob performed well, achieving the highest accuracy and low resource usage among the candidates, whereas SentiWordNet consistently lagged across all metrics. We discuss performance-resource trade-offs for deploying sentiment analysis in low-compute applications where it is essential to efficiently manage local data processing and resources.