Target Two Birds With One SToNe: Entity-Level Sentiment and Tone Analysis in Croatian News Headlines

Ana Barić, Laura Majer, David Dukić, Marijana Grbeša-zenzerović, Jan Snajder


Abstract
Sentiment analysis is often used to examine how different actors are portrayed in the media, and analysis of news headlines is of particular interest due to their attention-grabbing role. We address the task of entity-level sentiment analysis from Croatian news headlines. We frame the task as targeted sentiment analysis (TSA), explicitly differentiating between sentiment toward a named entity and the overall tone of the headline. We describe SToNe, a new dataset for this task with sentiment and tone labels. We implement several neural benchmark models, utilizing single- and multi-task training, and show that TSA can benefit from tone information. Finally, we gauge the difficulty of this task by leveraging dataset cartography.
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2023.bsnlp-1.10
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Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing 2023 (SlavicNLP 2023)
Month:
May
Year:
2023
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Jakub Piskorski, Michał Marcińczuk, Preslav Nakov, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Senja Pollak, Pavel Přibáň, Piotr Rybak, Josef Steinberger, Roman Yangarber
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BSNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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78–85
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.bsnlp-1.10
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.bsnlp-1.10
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Ana Barić, Laura Majer, David Dukić, Marijana Grbeša-zenzerović, and Jan Snajder. 2023. Target Two Birds With One SToNe: Entity-Level Sentiment and Tone Analysis in Croatian News Headlines. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing 2023 (SlavicNLP 2023), pages 78–85, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Target Two Birds With One SToNe: Entity-Level Sentiment and Tone Analysis in Croatian News Headlines (Barić et al., BSNLP 2023)
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