arXiv:2609.36194v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Extracted sentiment directions can vary across samples even when downstream sentiment classification remains accurate. To evaluate direction reproducib...
By Muhammad Abdullahi Said, Abass Oguntade, Elisha Komolafe, Babangida Sani, Fatima Muhammad Adam, Muhammad Sammani Sani
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:2608.22922v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present HelaBERT, a family of two BERT-based masked language models pre-trained from scratch on approximately 1 billion tokens of Sinhala text sourc...
By Thisen Ekanayake, Nisansa de Silva
The paper introduces BARRAC, a method that adapts an English aspect‑based sentiment analysis framework for Arabic dialect classification tasks. It replaces English consumer‑review attribute pools with Arabic linguistic markers for sentiment, sarcasm, and dialect identification, and swaps noisy self‑training for a two‑stage training process. Evaluated on five Arabic dialect datasets, BARRAC achieves a mean macro‑F1 of 63.93%, surpassing the best few‑label state‑of‑the‑art by 3% and outperforming GPT‑4o on four of the five tasks, while error analysis highlights remaining challenges.
By Ali Almutairi, Gelareh Mohammadi, Imran Razzak, Aditya Joshi
arXiv:2502. 08266v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hate speech detection is a crucial task, especially on social media where harmful content can spread quickly.
By Somaiyeh Dehghan, Mehmet Umut Sen, Berrin Yanikoglu
arXiv:2607. 05259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sentiment analysis has been a primary domain under Natural Language Processing (NLP) from its inception as it plays a vital role in both real-world and research applications.
By Lakshani Galwatta, Nisansa de Silva, Sarangi Aththanayake, Adithya Galwatta
The paper evaluates twelve financial sentiment models—including dictionary-based methods, finance-specific transformers, and open-source large language models—using linguistic and economic validity criteria. General-purpose LLMs match finance-specific transformers in classification performance but do not yield stronger economic relationships. While several models correlate with earnings surprises, none shows a significant link to next‑day stock returns, and performance is strongest for large earnings beats or misses.
By Arslan Bisharat, Oudom Hean
arXiv:2608. 11049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of social media has created vast amounts of political discourse, which provides valuable opportunities to analyze public opinions and identify different political perspectives.
By Girma Yohannis Bade, Olga Kolesnikova, Jose Luis Oropeza, Grigori Sidorov
Multilingual Language Models like mBERT are widely used for low-resource NLP, yet their adaptation to morphologically inconsistent languages such as Roman Urdu remains underexplored. Roman Urdu spelling variation causes severe sub-word fragmentation, averaging 1.
arXiv:2608. 09834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial sentiment analysis converts unstructured financial news into quantitative signals that can support market analysis and decision-making.
By Fan Zhang, Jiaming Li
arXiv:2607. 20056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) in Arabic must recover both explicitly stated aspects and implicit aspects that are never named in the text.
By Lujain A. Alawwad
When people share experiences online, they often express thoughts in two ways: a star rating and a written review. In sentiment analysis, ratings are widely used as convenient weak labels for textual sentiment, yet whether the two actually agree is rarely questioned.