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IIT Gandhinagar at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Code-Mixed Sentiment Classification Using Candidate Sentence Generation and Selection

Computation and Language 2020-07-24 v3

Abstract

Code-mixing is the phenomenon of using multiple languages in the same utterance of a text or speech. It is a frequently used pattern of communication on various platforms such as social media sites, online gaming, product reviews, etc. Sentiment analysis of the monolingual text is a well-studied task. Code-mixing adds to the challenge of analyzing the sentiment of the text due to the non-standard writing style. We present a candidate sentence generation and selection based approach on top of the Bi-LSTM based neural classifier to classify the Hinglish code-mixed text into one of the three sentiment classes positive, negative, or neutral. The proposed approach shows an improvement in the system performance as compared to the Bi-LSTM based neural classifier. The results present an opportunity to understand various other nuances of code-mixing in the textual data, such as humor-detection, intent classification, etc.

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@article{arxiv.2006.14465,
  title  = {IIT Gandhinagar at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Code-Mixed Sentiment Classification Using Candidate Sentence Generation and Selection},
  author = {Vivek Srivastava and Mayank Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.14465},
  year   = {2020}
}
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