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Sentiment Analysis with Contextual Embeddings and Self-Attention

Computation and Language 2020-10-07 v2 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

In natural language the intended meaning of a word or phrase is often implicit and depends on the context. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective method for sentiment analysis using contextual embeddings and a self-attention mechanism. The experimental results for three languages, including morphologically rich Polish and German, show that our model is comparable to or even outperforms state-of-the-art models. In all cases the superiority of models leveraging contextual embeddings is demonstrated. Finally, this work is intended as a step towards introducing a universal, multilingual sentiment classifier.

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@article{arxiv.2003.05574,
  title  = {Sentiment Analysis with Contextual Embeddings and Self-Attention},
  author = {Katarzyna Biesialska and Magdalena Biesialska and Henryk Rybinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.05574},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Accepted at the 25th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2020)

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