sentiment analysis

BESSTIE: A Benchmark for Sentiment and Sarcasm Classification for Varieties of English

Despite large language models (LLMs) being known to exhibit bias against non-mainstream varieties, there are no known labeled datasets for sentiment analysis of English. To address this gap, we introduce BESSTIE, a benchmark for sentiment and sarcasm …

Modelling Political Aggression on Social Media Platforms

Recent years have seen a proliferation of aggressive social media posts, often wreaking even real-world consequences for victims. Aggressive behaviour on social media is especially evident during important sociopolitical events such as elections, …

Applications and Challenges of Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Scenarios

Sentiment analysis has benefited from the availability of lexicons and benchmark datasets created over decades of research. However, its applications to the real world are a driving force for research in SA. This chapter describes some of these …

Recommendation Chart of Domains for Cross-Domain Sentiment Analysis: Findings of A 20 Domain Study

Cross-domain sentiment analysis (CDSA) helps to address the problem of data scarcity in scenarios where labelled data for a domain (known as the target domain) is unavailable or insufficient. However, the decision to choose a domain (known as the …

Leveraging Cognitive Features for Sentiment Analysis

Sentiments expressed in user-generated short text and sentences are nuanced by subtleties at lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels. To address this, we propose to augment traditional features used for sentiment analysis and sarcasm …

Predicting Readers' Sarcasm Understandability by Modeling Gaze Behavior

Sarcasm understandability or the ability to understand textual sarcasm depends upon readers’ language proficiency, social knowledge, mental state and attentiveness. We introduce a novel method to predict the sarcasm understandability of a reader. …