Leveraging Semantic and Sentiment Knowledge for User-Generated Text Sentiment Classification

Jawad Khan, Niaz Ahmad, Aftab Alam, Youngmoon Lee


Abstract
Sentiment analysis is essential to process and understand unstructured user-generated content for better data analytics and decision-making. State-of-the-art techniques suffer from a high dimensional feature space because of noisy and irrelevant features from the noisy user-generated text. Our goal is to mitigate such problems using DNN-based text classification and popular word embeddings (Glove, fastText, and BERT) in conjunction with statistical filter feature selection (mRMR and PCA) to select relevant sentiment features and pick out unessential/irrelevant ones. We propose an effective way of integrating the traditional feature construction methods with the DNN-based methods to improve the performance of sentiment classification. We evaluate our model on three real-world benchmark datasets demonstrating that our proposed method improves the classification performance of several existing methods.
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2022.wnut-1.11
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Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022)
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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WNUT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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101–105
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Jawad Khan, Niaz Ahmad, Aftab Alam, and Youngmoon Lee. 2022. Leveraging Semantic and Sentiment Knowledge for User-Generated Text Sentiment Classification. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022), pages 101–105, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Leveraging Semantic and Sentiment Knowledge for User-Generated Text Sentiment Classification (Khan et al., WNUT 2022)
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