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Radical ideas, rumors, terrorism, or violent contents are also propagated on the Internet, causing several incidents of social panic every year in China. In fact, most of this content comprises joking or emotional catharsis. To detect this with conventional techniques usually incurs a large false alarm rate. To address this problem, this paper introduces a technique that combines sentiment analysis with background checks. State-of-the-art sentiment analysis usually depends on training datasets in a specific topic area. Unfortunately, for some domains, such as violence risk speech detection, there is no definitive training data. In particular, topic-independent sentiment analysis of short Chinese text has been rarely reported in the literature. In this paper, the violence risk of the Chinese microblogs is calculated from multiple perspectives. First, a lexicon-based method is used to retrieve violence-related microblogs, and then a similarity-based method is used to extract sentiment words. Semantic rules and emoticons are employed to obtain the sentiment polarity and sentiment strength of short texts. Second, the activity risk is calculated based on the characteristics of part of speech (PoS) sequence and by semantic rules, and then a threshold is set to capture the key users. Finally, the risk is confirmed by historical speeches and the opinions of the friend-circle of the key users. The experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms the support vector machine (SVM) method on a topic-independent corpus and can effectively reduce the false alarm rate.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi11090200","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,19]],"date-time":"2019-09-19T10:55:21Z","timestamp":1568890521000},"page":"200","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Incorporating Background Checks with Sentiment Analysis to Identify Violence Risky Chinese Microblogs"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Yun-Fei","family":"Jia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Engineering and Automation, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Honeywell Technology Solutions China, Beijing 100015, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Renbiao","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Engineering and Automation, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1253","DOI":"10.1002\/widm.1253","article-title":"Deep learning for sentiment analysis: A survey","volume":"8","author":"Zhang","year":"2018","journal-title":"Wiley Interdiscip. 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