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Title Words, Tweets, and Reviews: Leveraging Affective Knowledge Between Multiple Domains
Authors Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Cristian Tamblay
Publication date 2022
Abstract Three popular application domains of sentiment and emotion
analysis are: 1) the automatic rating of movie reviews, 2) extracting
opinions and emotions on Twitter, and 3) inferring sentiment and emotion
associations of words. The textual elements of these domains differ in their
length, i.e., movie reviews are usually longer than tweets and words are
obviously shorter than tweets, but they also share the property that they
can be plausibly annotated according to the same affective categories (e.g.,
positive, negative, anger, joy). Moreover, state-of-the-art models for these
domains are all based on the approach of training supervised machine
learning models on manually annotated examples. This approach suffers from
an important bottleneck: Manually annotated examples are expensive and
time-consuming to obtain and not always available. In this paper, we propose
a method for transferring affective knowledge between words, tweets, and
movie reviews using two representation techniques: Word2Vec static
embeddings and BERT contextualized embeddings. We build compatible
representations for movie reviews, tweets, and words, using these
techniques, and train and evaluate supervised models on all combinations of
source and target domains. Our experimental results show that affective
knowledge can be successfully transferred between our three domains, that
contextualized embeddings tend to outperform their static counterparts, and
that better transfer learning results are obtained when the source domain
has longer textual units than the target domain.
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Pages 388-406
Volume 14
Journal name Cognitive Computation
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG (Cham, Switzerland)
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