arXiv Computation and Language

Sentiment sensing: comparative analysis of multilingual sentiment dynamics

The paper introduces "sentiment sensing," a framework designed to overcome key obstacles in cross‑country sentiment analysis, such as language‑specific biases, compositional data constraints, and the lack of rigorous testing for temporal dynamics. It integrates compositional data analysis, functional data methods, and non‑parametric inference to allow valid multilingual comparisons and statistically defensible detection of sentiment shifts. The authors demonstrate the framework in two case studies, analyzing news articles from all 27 EU member states on energy and artificial intelligence topics.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

Multi-Label Sentiment Analysis on 100 Languages with Dynamic Weighting for Label Imbalance

The paper presents a multi‑label sentiment analysis framework that follows Plutchik’s wheel of emotions and is applicable to 100 languages. It introduces a dynamic weighting scheme to balance class contributions during training, adapts focal loss for harder instances, and derives a linear‑time method for selecting optimal class‑specific thresholds to maximize macro‑F1. Experiments show state‑of‑the‑art performance across multiple languages and metrics, and the authors release the code publicly.

By Selim F. Yilmaz, E. Batuhan Kaynak, Aykut Ko\c{c}, Hamdi Dibeklio\u{g}lu, Suleyman S. Kozat
arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

Steering with Multilingual Lexicons for Sentiment Control in Low-Resource Languages

The paper proposes using multilingual sentiment lexicons to steer language models for sentiment control, especially in low-resource languages. It finds that aggregated multilingual lexicons outperform English-derived steering vectors for mid- and low-resource languages, while monolingual lexicons are still best for languages the model was pre-trained on. The study also explains how representational density, pre-training priors, and architectural biases affect steering effectiveness, noting that large English vectors can cause linguistic collapse in low-resource settings but this is mitigated by norm-dampening in multilingual aggregation.

By Lucinda Laurent, Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Fajri Koto
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 18

Against Political Polarization: A Unified Framework for Tracing Evolving Political Ideologies on Social Media

The paper introduces TSN4PI, a unified framework for tracking the evolution of political ideologies on social media. It combines a PIDN module that uses large language models, style transfer, and unsupervised domain adaptation to detect ideologies and filter noise, with a PIPN module that employs temporal graph neural networks to predict future ideological shifts. The authors release two large-scale datasets and validate the approach on platforms such as X and Truth Social, offering empirical insights into political polarization and ideology evolution.

arXiv AI
Aug 19

Against Political Polarization: A Unified Framework for Tracing Evolving Political Ideologies on Social Media

The paper introduces TSN4PI, a unified framework for tracking the evolution of political ideologies on social media. It combines a PIDN module that uses large language models, style transfer, and unsupervised domain adaptation to detect ideologies and filter noise, with a PIPN module that employs temporal graph neural networks to predict future ideological shifts. The authors release two large-scale datasets and validate the approach on platforms such as X and Truth Social, offering empirical insights into political polarization and online ideology evolution.

By Yijie Xu, Chao Wang, Hui Xiong
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Modalities via Semantic-aware Completeness based Reconstruction

The paper presents a method for robust multimodal sentiment analysis that handles incomplete or noisy modalities. It introduces a completeness estimation technique to measure how much sentiment-relevant information remains in partial data, guiding the reconstruction of missing semantics. A joint training strategy stabilizes multi-task learning for sentiment prediction and completeness estimation, and experiments on three benchmark datasets show improved semantic reconstruction and sentiment accuracy.

By Han-Jun Choi, Byunggill Joe, Saim Shin, Jin Yea Jang
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 5

Mawqif-XT: An Arabic Benchmark Dataset for Cross-Target Stance Detection

The paper introduces Mawqif-XT, a new Arabic benchmark dataset comprising 996 manually annotated tweets from three public targets: Women Driving, E-Cars, and Trimester System. Each tweet is labeled for stance, sentiment, and sarcasm following the Mawqif annotation scheme, and the dataset is intended as a held‑out evaluation set to test cross‑target generalization. Baseline results are provided using Arabic and multilingual transformer models as well as zero‑shot large language models, enabling reproducible evaluation alongside the original Mawqif dataset.

By Rasha Albalawi, Nuha Albadi, Hamzah Luqman, Maram Kurdi, Saad Ezzini, Asma Yamani, Ahmed Ashraf
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

KESA: A Knowledge Enhanced Approach For Sentiment Analysis

The paper introduces KESA, a knowledge‑enhanced approach for sentence‑level sentiment analysis that incorporates sentiment knowledge through two auxiliary tasks: sentiment word cloze and conditional sentiment prediction. These tasks use prior sentiment polarity to guide the selection of sentiment words and the prediction of overall sentiment, respectively, and explore label combination methods to unify multiple label types. Experiments show that KESA consistently outperforms pre‑trained models and complements existing knowledge‑enhanced post‑training methods.

By Qinghua Zhao, Shuai Ma, Shuo Ren
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 9

Structured Sentiment Analysis Using Sequence Labeling as Dependency Graph Parsing

The paper presents a method for structured sentiment analysis that constructs a fine‑grained sentiment graph with nodes for sentiment holders, targets, and expressions, and arcs for their relationships. It reframes the task as dependency graph parsing and solves it via sequence labeling, using linearized graph encodings to assign a label to each word. Experiments on seven datasets across five languages demonstrate that this approach achieves performance competitive with more complex single‑model methods.

By Muhammad Imran, Ana Ezquerro, Carlos G\'omez-Rodr\'iguez, Anders S{\o}gaard, David Vilares