An opinion is a viewpoint or judgment about a specific thing that acts as a key influence on an individual process of decision making. People's belief and the choices they make are always dependent on how others see and evaluate the world. So opinion holds high values in many aspect of life. Sentiment analysis is the process of determining opinions or sentiments in textual documents as positive, or negative. In recent years, this field is widely appreciated by researchers due to its dynamic range of application in various numbers of fields. There are several areas such as marketing; politics; news analytics etc. which are benefited from the result of sentiment analysis. Due to the vast range of movies these days, it has become difficult for the audience to select their preferred genre of movie. Movie reviews turn out to be very useful

Sentiment classification or sentiment analysis has been acknowledged as an open research domain. In recent years, an enormous research work is being performed in these fields by applying various numbers of methodologies. Feature generation and selection are consequent for text mining as the high-dimensional feature set can affect the performance of sentiment analysis. This paper investigates the inability or incompetency of the widely used feature selection methods (IG, Chi-square, and Gini Index) with unigram and bigram feature set on four machine learning classification algorithms (MNB, SVM, KNN, and ME). The proposed methods are evaluated on the basis of three standard datasets, namely, IMDb movie review and electronics and kitchen product review dataset. Initially, unigram and bigram features are extracted by applying n-gram method. In addition, we generate a composite features vector CompUniBi (unigram + bigram), which is sent to the feature selection methods Information Gain (IG), Gini Index (GI), and Chi-square (CHI) to get an optimal feature subset by assigning a score to each of the features. These methods offer a ranking to the features depending on their score; thus a prominent feature vector (CompIG, CompGI, and CompCHI) can be generated easily for classification. Finally, the machine learning classifiers SVM, MNB, KNN, and ME used prominent feature vector for classifying the review document into either positive or negative. The performance of the algorithm is measured by evaluation methods such as precision, recall, and F-measure. Experimental results show that the composite feature vector achieved a better performance than unigram feature, which is encouraging as well as comparable to the related research. The best results were obtained from the combination of Information Gain with SVM in terms of highest accuracy.

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