Grid Search Tuning of Hyperparameters in Random Forest Classifier for Customer Feedback Sentiment Prediction

• Published in: International journal of advanced computer science & applications 2020, Vol.11 (9)
• Main Authors: G, Siji George C, -, B.Sumathi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Algorithms; Classification; Classifiers; Customer feedback; Customers; Data analysis; Feedback; Machine learning; Mathematical models; Parameters; Search methods; Tuning
• ISSN: 2158-107X; 2156-5570
• DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110920

Text classification is a common task in machine learning. One of the supervised classification algorithm called Random Forest has been generally used for this task. There is a group of parameters in Random Forest classifier which need to be tuned. If proper tuning is performed on these hyperparameters, the classifier will give a better result. This paper proposes a hybrid approach of Random Forest classifier and Grid Search method for customer feedback data analysis. The tuning approach of Grid Search is applied for tuning the hyperparameters of Random Forest classifier. The Random Forest classifier is used for customer feedback data analysis and then the result is compared with the results which get after applying Grid Search method. The proposed approach provided a promising result in customer feedback data analysis. The experiments in this work show that the accuracy of the proposed model to predict the sentiment on customer feedback data is greater than the performance accuracy obtained by the model without applying parameter tuning.