Heuristic-Assisted BERT for Twitter Sentiment Analysis

Author(s):  
Gokul Yenduri ◽  
B. R. Rajakumar ◽  
K. Praghash ◽  
D. Binu

The identification of opinions and sentiments from tweets is termed as “Twitter Sentiment Analysis (TSA)”. The major process of TSA is to determine the sentiment or polarity of the tweet and then classifying them into a negative or positive tweet. There are several methods introduced for carrying out TSA, however, it remains to be challenging due to slang words, modern accents, grammatical and spelling mistakes, and other issues that could not be solved by existing techniques. This work develops a novel customized BERT-oriented sentiment classification that encompasses two main phases: pre-processing and tokenization, and a “Customized Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)”-based classification. At first, the gathered raw tweets are pre-processed under stop-word removal, stemming and blank space removal. After pre-processing, the semantic words are obtained, from which the meaningful words (tokens) are extracted in the tokenization phase. Consequently, these extracted tokens are classified via optimized BERT, where biases and weight are tuned optimally by Particle-Assisted Circle Updating Position (PA-CUP). Moreover, the maximal sequence length of the BERT encoder is updated using standard PA-CUP. Finally, the performance analysis is carried out to substantiate the enhancement of the proposed model.

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1336
Author(s):  
Gihyeon Choi ◽  
Shinhyeok Oh ◽  
Harksoo Kim

Previous researchers have considered sentiment analysis as a document classification task, in which input documents are classified into predefined sentiment classes. Although there are sentences in a document that support important evidences for sentiment analysis and sentences that do not, they have treated the document as a bag of sentences. In other words, they have not considered the importance of each sentence in the document. To effectively determine polarity of a document, each sentence in the document should be dealt with different degrees of importance. To address this problem, we propose a document-level sentence classification model based on deep neural networks, in which the importance degrees of sentences in documents are automatically determined through gate mechanisms. To verify our new sentiment analysis model, we conducted experiments using the sentiment datasets in the four different domains such as movie reviews, hotel reviews, restaurant reviews, and music reviews. In the experiments, the proposed model outperformed previous state-of-the-art models that do not consider importance differences of sentences in a document. The experimental results show that the importance of sentences should be considered in a document-level sentiment classification task.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 6016-6020
Author(s):  
I. A. Kandhro ◽  
S. Z. Jumani ◽  
F. Ali ◽  
Z. U. Shaikh ◽  
M. A. Arain ◽  
...  

This paper focuses on the performance analysis of hyperparameters of the Sentiment Analysis (SA) model of a course evaluation dataset. The performance was analyzed regarding hyperparameters such as activation, optimization, and regularization. In this paper, the activation functions used were adam, adagrad, nadam, adamax, and hard_sigmoid, the optimization functions were softmax, softplus, sigmoid, and relu, and the dropout values were 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4. The results indicate that parameters adam and softmax with dropout value 2.0 are effective when compared to other combinations of the SA model. The experimental results reveal that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art deep learning classifiers.


Author(s):  
Jiachen Du ◽  
Ruifeng Xu ◽  
Yulan He ◽  
Lin Gui

Stance classification, which aims at detecting the stance expressed in text towards a specific target, is an emerging problem in sentiment analysis. A major difference between stance classification and traditional aspect-level sentiment classification is that the identification of stance is dependent on target which might not be explicitly mentioned in text. This indicates that apart from text content, the target information is important to stance detection. To this end, we propose a neural network-based model, which incorporates target-specific information into stance classification by following a novel attention mechanism. In specific, the attention mechanism is expected to locate the critical parts of text which are related to target. Our evaluations on both the English and Chinese Stance Detection datasets show that the proposed model achieves the state-of-the-art performance.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 2010
Author(s):  
Kang Zhang ◽  
Yushui Geng ◽  
Jing Zhao ◽  
Jianxin Liu ◽  
Wenxiao Li

In recent years, with the popularity of social media, users are increasingly keen to express their feelings and opinions in the form of pictures and text, which makes multimodal data with text and pictures the con tent type with the most growth. Most of the information posted by users on social media has obvious sentimental aspects, and multimodal sentiment analysis has become an important research field. Previous studies on multimodal sentiment analysis have primarily focused on extracting text and image features separately and then combining them for sentiment classification. These studies often ignore the interaction between text and images. Therefore, this paper proposes a new multimodal sentiment analysis model. The model first eliminates noise interference in textual data and extracts more important image features. Then, in the feature-fusion part based on the attention mechanism, the text and images learn the internal features from each other through symmetry. Then the fusion features are applied to sentiment classification tasks. The experimental results on two common multimodal sentiment datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model.


Author(s):  
Midde Venkateswarlu Naik ◽  
D. Vasumathi ◽  
A.P. Siva Kumar

Aims: The proposed research work is on an evolutionary enhanced method for sentiment or emotion classification on unstructured review text in the big data field. The sentiment analysis plays a vital role for current generation of people for extracting valid decision points about any aspect such as movie ratings, education institute or politics ratings, etc. The proposed hybrid approach combined the optimal feature selection using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and sentiment classification through Support Vector Machine (SVM). The current approach performance is evaluated with statistical measures, such as precision, recall, sensitivity, specificity, and was compared with the existing approaches. The earlier authors have achieved an accuracy of sentiment classifier in the English text up to 94% as of now. In the proposed scheme, an average accuracy of sentiment classifier on distinguishing datasets outperformed as 99% by tuning various parameters of SVM, such as constant c value and kernel gamma value in association with PSO optimization technique. The proposed method utilized three datasets, such as airline sentiment data, weather, and global warming datasets, that are publically available. The current experiment produced results that are trained and tested based on 10- Fold Cross-Validations (FCV) and confusion matrix for predicting sentiment classifier accuracy. Background: The sentiment analysis plays a vital role for current generation people for extracting valid decisions about any aspect such as movie rating, education institute or even politics ratings, etc. Sentiment Analysis (SA) or opinion mining has become fascinated scientifically as a research domain for the present environment. The key area is sentiment classification on semi-structured or unstructured data in distinguish languages, which has become a major research aspect. User-Generated Content [UGC] from distinguishing sources has been hiked significantly with rapid growth in a web environment. The huge user-generated data over social media provides substantial value for discovering hidden knowledge or correlations, patterns, and trends or sentiment extraction about any specific entity. SA is a computational analysis to determine the actual opinion of an entity which is expressed in terms of text. SA is also called as computation of emotional polarity expressed over social media as natural text in miscellaneous languages. Usually, the automatic superlative sentiment classifier model depends on feature selection and classification algorithms. Methods: The proposed work used Support vector machine as classification technique and particle swarm optimization technique as feature selection purpose. In this methodology, we tune various permutations and combination parameters in order to obtain expected desired results with kernel and without kernel technique for sentiment classification on three datasets, including airline, global warming, weather sentiment datasets, that are freely hosted for research practices. Results: In the proposed scheme, The proposed method has outperformed with 99.2% of average accuracy to classify the sentiment on different datasets, among other machine learning techniques. The attained high accuracy in classifying sentiment or opinion about review text proves superior effectiveness over existing sentiment classifiers. The current experiment produced results that are trained and tested based on 10- Fold Cross-Validations (FCV) and confusion matrix for predicting sentiment classifier accuracy. Conclusion: The objective of the research issue sentiment classifier accuracy has been hiked with the help of Kernel-based Support Vector Machine (SVM) based on parameter optimization. The optimal feature selection to classify sentiment or opinion towards review documents has been determined with the help of a particle swarm optimization approach. The proposed method utilized three datasets to simulate the results, such as airline sentiment data, weather sentiment data, and global warming data that are freely available datasets.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avinash Chandra Pandey ◽  
Dharmveer Singh Rajpoot

Background: Sentiment analysis is a contextual mining of text which determines viewpoint of users with respect to some sentimental topics commonly present at social networking websites. Twitter is one of the social sites where people express their opinion about any topic in the form of tweets. These tweets can be examined using various sentiment classification methods to find the opinion of users. Traditional sentiment analysis methods use manually extracted features for opinion classification. The manual feature extraction process is a complicated task since it requires predefined sentiment lexicons. On the other hand, deep learning methods automatically extract relevant features from data hence; they provide better performance and richer representation competency than the traditional methods. Objective: The main aim of this paper is to enhance the sentiment classification accuracy and to reduce the computational cost. Method: To achieve the objective, a hybrid deep learning model, based on convolution neural network and bi-directional long-short term memory neural network has been introduced. Results: The proposed sentiment classification method achieves the highest accuracy for the most of the datasets. Further, from the statistical analysis efficacy of the proposed method has been validated. Conclusion: Sentiment classification accuracy can be improved by creating veracious hybrid models. Moreover, performance can also be enhanced by tuning the hyper parameters of deep leaning models.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
J. Shobana ◽  
M. Murali

Text Sentiment analysis is the process of predicting whether a segment of text has opinionated or objective content and analyzing the polarity of the text’s sentiment. Understanding the needs and behavior of the target customer plays a vital role in the success of the business so the sentiment analysis process would help the marketer to improve the quality of the product as well as a shopper to buy the correct product. Due to its automatic learning capability, deep learning is the current research interest in Natural language processing. Skip-gram architecture is used in the proposed model for better extraction of the semantic relationships as well as contextual information of words. However, the main contribution of this work is Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (APSO) algorithm based LSTM for sentiment analysis. LSTM is used in the proposed model for understanding complex patterns in textual data. To improve the performance of the LSTM, weight parameters are enhanced by presenting the Adaptive PSO algorithm. Opposition based learning (OBL) method combined with PSO algorithm becomes the Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (APSO) classifier which assists LSTM in selecting optimal weight for the environment in less number of iterations. So APSO - LSTM ‘s ability in adjusting the attributes such as optimal weights and learning rates combined with the good hyper parameter choices leads to improved accuracy and reduces losses. Extensive experiments were conducted on four datasets proved that our proposed APSO-LSTM model secured higher accuracy over the classical methods such as traditional LSTM, ANN, and SVM. According to simulation results, the proposed model is outperforming other existing models.


2013 ◽  
Vol 427-429 ◽  
pp. 2614-2617
Author(s):  
Qing Xi Peng

Online reviews as a new textual domain offer a unique proposition for sentiment analysis. Their short document length suggests any sentiment they contain is compact and explicit. Although supersized methods have obtained good results, a large amount of corpus should be trained beforehand. Recently, topic models have been introduced for the simultaneous analysis for sentiment in the document. However, the LDA model makes the assumption that, given the parameters the words in the document are all independent. It obviously isnt the case. The words in the document express the sentiment of the author. This paper proposes a model to solve the problem. We assume that the sentiments are related to the topic in the documents. A sentiment layer is added to the LDA model to improve it. Experimental result in the dataset demonstrates the advantage of the proposed model.


2012 ◽  
Vol 157-158 ◽  
pp. 1079-1082
Author(s):  
Guo Shi Wu ◽  
Xiao Yin Wu ◽  
Jing Jing Wei

One of the most widely-studied sub-problems of opinion mining is sentiment classification, which includes three study levels: word, sentence and document. At the third level, most of the existing methods ignore comparative sentences which have particular sentence patterns and may lower the precision of the document-level analysis. This paper studies sentiment analysis of comparative sentences. The aim is to determine whether opinions expressed in a comparative sentence are positive or negative. Experiments of comparing with document-level sentiment analysis based on simple sentences shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.


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