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