Research Article

Predicting the Currency Market in Online Gaming via Lexicon-Based Analysis on Its Online Forum

Table 5

Experimental results of predicted WoW token prices fluctuation.

Learning methodGradient boostingRandom forestSupport vector machine
RegionLearning daysAccuracy (%)1-scoreMCCAccuracy (%)1-scoreMCCAccuracy (%)1-scoreMCC

North America region3 days75.65%0.75760.573169.13%0.69840.479964.13%0.64320.3445
5 days79.56%0.79550.592176.08%0.77840.570474.48%0.75390.318
7 days82.550.82550.637278.26%0.7930.576876.95%0.77650.3106
12 days80.65%0.80450.600978.69%0.78580.57978.69%0.79960.3773

Europe region3 days69.56%0.69570.391771.52%0.71380.437575.43%0.7966āˆ’0.0219
5 days71.73%0.71740.434673.91%0.73670.490770.65%0.62250.2742
7 days77.17%0.77180.542977.39%0.770.572371.3%0.63460.2989
12 days81.520.8150.632277.6%0.77910.577973.91%0.66560.3416