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SemEval-2016 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

Computation and Language 2021-09-22 v1 Information Retrieval

Abstract

This paper discusses the fourth year of the ``Sentiment Analysis in Twitter Task''. SemEval-2016 Task 4 comprises five subtasks, three of which represent a significant departure from previous editions. The first two subtasks are reruns from prior years and ask to predict the overall sentiment, and the sentiment towards a topic in a tweet. The three new subtasks focus on two variants of the basic ``sentiment classification in Twitter'' task. The first variant adopts a five-point scale, which confers an ordinal character to the classification task. The second variant focuses on the correct estimation of the prevalence of each class of interest, a task which has been called quantification in the supervised learning literature. The task continues to be very popular, attracting a total of 43 teams.

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@article{arxiv.1912.01973,
  title  = {SemEval-2016 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter},
  author = {Preslav Nakov and Alan Ritter and Sara Rosenthal and Fabrizio Sebastiani and Veselin Stoyanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.01973},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Sentiment analysis, sentiment towards a topic, quantification, microblog sentiment analysis; Twitter opinion mining. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1912.00741

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