Papers with sentiment analysis task
GRUBERT: A GRU-Based Method to Fuse BERT Hidden Layers for Twitter Sentiment Analysis (2020.aacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | GRUBERT learns to map the different BERT hidden layers to fused embeddings . aims to achieve high accuracy on Twitter sentiment analysis task . |
| Approach: | They propose a GRU-based architecture that learns to map BERT hidden layers to fused embeddings to capture tweets' full extent. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms well-known embeddings and heuristics on Twitter sentiment analysis. |
Misspelling Semantics in Thai (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | In English, more than 70% of documents on the internet contain some form of misspelling . misspellers can be used as prosody to provide additional clues about the writer's attitude . |
| Approach: | They propose two ways to incorporate misspelling semantics into user-generated content . they propose a method to boost micro F1 score by 0.4-2% . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods can boost the micro F1 score up to 0.4-2% while normalising misspelling is harmful and suboptimal. |
Using Contextually Aligned Online Reviews to Measure LLMs’ Performance Disparities Across Language Varieties (2025.naacl-short)
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| Challenge: | Of the world's 7,000 languages, sixty (60) million people speak British English, 23 million speak Taiwan Mandarin, and 10 million speak European Portuguese. |
| Approach: | They propose a contextually aligned dataset that captures comments in different languages from real-world scenarios. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach shows that large language models underperform in Taiwan Mandarin in a sentiment analysis task. |
A Dataset and BERT-based Models for Targeted Sentiment Analysis on Turkish Texts (2022.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Sentiment analysis is a field that is growing due to the availability of the Internet and the growing number of online platforms. |
| Approach: | They propose an annotated Turkish dataset suitable for targeted sentiment analysis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform the traditional models for the targeted sentiment analysis task. |
FAST: Fast Annotation tool for SmarT devices (2021.emnlp-demo)
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| Challenge: | In real-world applications, annotators with the same attributes are required to annotate whether the outputs of natural language generation systems are fluent or not. |
| Approach: | They propose an annotation tool for application tasks that focuses on the user experience of mobile devices and can be customized to fit various tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool can annotate faster than existing methods while maintaining the quality of annotation. |
Arabizi Language Models for Sentiment Analysis (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Arabizi is a written form of spoken Arabic, relying on Latin characters and digits. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Arabizi as a written form of spoken Arabic in online social networks . they use a corpus of 7.7M tweets written in Arabizi and a subset of SALAD to train a model in Arabic . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art models on sentiment analysis task using arabizi . the proposed model is based on a corpus of 7.7M tweets written in arabizi and a subset of LAD manually annotated for sentiment analysis. |
Exploring Amharic Sentiment Analysis from Social Media Texts: Building Annotation Tools and Classification Models (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing crowdsourcing platforms do not support sentiment analysis for Amharic, and there are no expert researchers in the area. |
| Approach: | They propose to build a social-network-friendly Amharic sentiment analysis tool using the Telegram bot and collect 9.4k tweets where each tweet is annotated by three Telegram users. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms existing classifiers in Amharic and other low-resource languages due to the widespread use of sarcasm and figurative speech. |
Resource Creation Towards Automated Sentiment Analysis in Telugu (a low resource language) and Integrating Multiple Domain Sources to Enhance Sentiment Prediction (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Sentiment Analysis of text is an important task in many applications . but the task becomes challenging when it comes to low resource languages . |
| Approach: | They propose to create a corpus of polarity-based sentiment classifiers in Telugu for different domains like movie reviews, song lyrics, product reviews and book reviews. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs well in multiple domains and is compared with the previous models. |
KLEJ: Comprehensive Benchmark for Polish Language Understanding (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent introduction of robust, general-purpose models for fine-tuning has enabled improvements in general natural language understanding (NLU) but such benchmarks are only available for a handful of languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-task benchmark for the Polish language understanding with an online leaderboard . they also propose GLUE, a task for named entity recognition and sentiment analysis . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs best on three out of nine tasks in the Polish language . the proposed model is also used in an e-commerce domain to analyze the sentiments of users . |
BiSyn-GAT+: Bi-Syntax Aware Graph Attention Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Aspect-based sentiment analysis is challenging because a sentence may contain multiple aspects or complicated relationships. |
| Approach: | They propose a bi-syntax aware Graph Attention Network to model the context of every aspect and sentiment relations across aspects for learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on four benchmark datasets. |
CoCoa: An Encoder-Decoder Model for Controllable Code-switched Generation (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Generating code-switched text with fine-grained control on the degree of code-witching and the lexical choices used to convey formality has been well-explored. |
| Approach: | They propose to generate code-switched text with fine-grained control on the degree of code-changing and lexical choices used to convey formality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be invoked at test-time to synthesize code-switched text faithful to syntactic and lexical attributes relevant to code-witching. |
CLMLF:A Contrastive Learning and Multi-Layer Fusion Method for Multimodal Sentiment Detection (2022.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for multimodal sentiment detection do not consider token-level feature fusion. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for multimodal sentiment detection using a combination of text and image to encode and fuse token-level features. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can fuse multimodal features with token-level features on three publicly available multimodal datasets. |
Human-in-the-Loop Synthetic Text Data Inspection with Provenance Tracking (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Data augmentation techniques generate low-quality texts with incorrect labels . a new technique is needed to winnow out texts with inaccurate labels based on provenance inspection . |
| Approach: | They develop a data inspection technique that uses provenance inspection and assistive labeling to winnow out texts with incorrect labels. |
| Outcome: | a new human-in-the-loop data inspection technique can winnow out texts with incorrect labels . the technique can reduce human inspection effort by combining provenance inspection and assistive labeling . |
Syntactically-Informed Unsupervised Paraphrasing with Non-Parallel Data (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on syntactically controlled paraphrase generation rely on large-scale parallel data. |
| Approach: | They propose a syntactically-informed unsupervised paraphrasing model based on conditional variational auto-encoder which can generate texts in a specified syntastic structure. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate diverse paraphrases with specified syntactic structure using non-parallel data. |
Enhanced Multi-Channel Graph Convolutional Network for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to extract aspect triplets ignore the relationships between words . Enhanced Multi-Channel Graph Convolutional Network model can be used to learn relation-aware node representations. |
| Approach: | They propose an Enhanced Multi-Channel Graph Convolutional Network model to fully utilize the relations between words for ASTE task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods significantly on a benchmark dataset. |
Learning Semantic Sentence Embeddings using Sequential Pair-wise Discriminator (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | a novel method for obtaining sentence-level embeddings is proposed . the problem of obtaining a semantic embeddable sentence is at the core of understanding languages . |
| Approach: | They propose a method for obtaining sentence-level embeddings by using a sequential encoder-decoder framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art on a sentiment analysis task. |
A Span-level Bidirectional Network for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE) is a new fine-grained sentiment analysis task . recent studies have focused on solving aspects term extraction, opinion term extraction and aspect-level sentiment classification tasks individually or in combination of two subtasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a span-level bidirectional network which utilizes all possible spans as input and extracts triplets from spans bidirectionally. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods and improves performance . it can extract triplets of aspect terms, sentiments, and opinion terms from review sentences . |
Recognizing Conflict Opinions in Aspect-level Sentiment Classification with Dual Attention Networks (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing models ignore conflict opinions because they are sparse in the datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-label classification model with dual attention mechanism to address these problems by excluding conflict opinions from existing models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model addresses the problem of exclusion of conflict opinions from the datasets. |
Odi et Amo. Creating, Evaluating and Extending Sentiment Lexicons for Latin. (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a new paper aims to provide sentiment analysis tools for ancient languages . the current sentiment analysis resources only cover modern languages based on textual typologies . |
| Approach: | They propose to use manually-curated Latin lexicons to evaluate sentiment analysis tools . they propose a gold standard and a silver standard for evaluating lexical items . |
| Outcome: | The proposed lexicons are evaluated using a gold standard and a silver standard for sentiment analysis. |
CAN: Constrained Attention Networks for Multi-Aspect Sentiment Analysis (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for aspect-specific sentiment classification are noisy and downgraded performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a constrained attention network to regularize attention for multi-aspect sentiment analysis by orthogonal regularization on multiple aspects and sparse regularization for each single aspect. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two public datasets and extends to multi-task settings. |
Word-Level Uncertainty Estimation for Black-Box Text Classifiers using RNNs (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Neural Networks are not interpretable, since they provide no information about why particular decisions were made. |
| Approach: | They propose to decompose and visualize uncertainty of text classifiers at the level of words to provide detailed explanations of uncertainties. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach decomposes and visualizes uncertainty of text classifiers at the level of words and enables a deeper understanding of unreliable model behaviours. |
SEMGraph: Incorporating Sentiment Knowledge and Eye Movement into Graph Model for Sentiment Analysis (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing research on sentiment analysis based on eye movement signals has been attributed importance. |
| Approach: | They propose a linguistic probing eye movement paradigm to extract eye movement features based on the relationship between linguistic features and human reading behavior. |
| Outcome: | The proposed graph architecture achieves state-of-the-art performance on two sentiment analysis datasets with eye movement signals and three sentiment analysis data without eye movement signal. |
A Sequence-to-Structure Approach to Document-level Targeted Sentiment Analysis (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has received wide attention in NLP for nearly two decades . previous studies focused on sentence-level ABSA, but document-level research has not received enough attention. |
| Approach: | They propose a Sequence-to-Structure approach to address the document-level targeted sentiment analysis task, which aims to extract the opinion targets consisting of multi-level entities from a review document and predict their sentiments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms baselines on six domains on the document-level targeted sentiment analysis task. |
A Contrastive Cross-Channel Data Augmentation Framework for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Aspect-based sentiment analysis is sensitive to multi-aspect challenges, resulting in multiple aspects in a sentence. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages an in-domain generator to construct more multi-aspect samples . they then boost the robustness of ABSA models via contrastive learning on these generated samples ." |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baselines without any augmentations on accuracy and Macro- F1 . the proposed framework can generate more multi-aspect samples and boost the robustness of ABSA models . |
Towards Exploiting Sticker for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Social Media: A New Dataset and Baseline (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Sentiment analysis in social media is challenging because of the lack of context. |
| Approach: | They propose to use stickers to perform a multimodal sentiment analysis task using Chinese stickers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs best compared with other models. |
Developing Language Resources and NLP Tools for the North Korean Language (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | There are no linguistic sources for the North Korean language, resulting in a lack of a Korean language model. |
| Approach: | They present a large-scale dataset for the North Korean language and annotate a subset of this dataset for a sentiment analysis task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs better than other models for masked language modeling and sentiment analysis tasks. |
Exploiting Unlabeled Data for Target-Oriented Opinion Words Extraction (2022.coling-1)
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Yidong Wang, Hao Wu, Ao Liu, Wenxin Hou, Zhen Wu, Jindong Wang, Takahiro Shinozaki, Manabu Okumura, Yue Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing methods to extract opinion words from sentences are limited due to the expensive annotation process. |
| Approach: | They propose to exploit massive unlabeled data to reduce distribution shift risk . they propose to use two filters specifically for TOWE to filter noisy data . results indicate superiority of MGCR over current state-of-the-art methods . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces the risk of distribution shifts by increasing the exposure of the model to varying distribution shift. |
Good or Bad News? Exploring GPT-4 for Sentiment Analysis for Faroese on a Public News Corpora (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on sentiment analysis in low-resource languages have focused on major languages and emotionally laden text genres like social media and reviews. |
| Approach: | They propose to use GPT-4 for sentiment analysis on Faroese news texts using a multi-class approach with 225 sentences analysed in 170 articles. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs remarkably well on 225 sentences and 170 articles compared to human annotators . |