LSIS at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Using Adapted Sentiment Similarity Seed Words For English and Arabic Tweet Polarity Classification

Amal Htait, Sébastien Fournier, Patrice Bellot


Abstract
We present, in this paper, our contribution in SemEval2017 task 4 : “Sentiment Analysis in Twitter”, subtask A: “Message Polarity Classification”, for English and Arabic languages. Our system is based on a list of sentiment seed words adapted for tweets. The sentiment relations between seed words and other terms are captured by cosine similarity between the word embedding representations (word2vec). These seed words are extracted from datasets of annotated tweets available online. Our tests, using these seed words, show significant improvement in results compared to the use of Turney and Littman’s (2003) seed words, on polarity classification of tweet messages.
Anthology ID:
S17-2120
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
Month:
August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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718–722
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https://aclanthology.org/S17-2120
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-2120
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Amal Htait, Sébastien Fournier, and Patrice Bellot. 2017. LSIS at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Using Adapted Sentiment Similarity Seed Words For English and Arabic Tweet Polarity Classification. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 718–722, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LSIS at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Using Adapted Sentiment Similarity Seed Words For English and Arabic Tweet Polarity Classification (Htait et al., SemEval 2017)
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