Sentiment recognition of online course reviews is valuable to understand emotions and feelings of learners. Nowadays, an increasing number of course reviews are being generated with the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which offers teachers a chance to analyze the opinions of learners and improve teaching strategies. However, the unstructured data contain large amounts of redundant features, which will significantly impact the performance of machine learning. To select effective emotional features, we adopt a multi-swarm particle swarm optimization (MSPSO) method, which genera...