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Embracing emojis in sarcasm detection to enhance sentiment analysis

Embracing emojis in sarcasm detection to enhance sentiment analysis
Embracing emojis in sarcasm detection to enhance sentiment analysis
Emojis are commonly used in social media posts to express sentiment. Most NLP studies clean their text from emojis in the pre-processing stage. This study suggests a framework to analyze sentiment and detect sarcasm by using the Emoji Dictionary (ED) and Sarcasm Detection Approach (SDA) with VADER as a lexicon-based classifier and BERT as a machine learning model to examine the impact of emojis on sentiment classification performance and in detecting sarcasm on three different topic datasets. The study's finding is that keeping emojis, using the ED, and a proposed SDA approach have an effect on increasing classification performance.
sentiment analysis, sarcasm detection, emojis
Alsabban, Malak Abdullah
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Weal, Mark
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Hall, Wendy
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Alsabban, Malak Abdullah
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Hall, Wendy
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Alsabban, Malak Abdullah, Weal, Mark and Hall, Wendy (2024) Embracing emojis in sarcasm detection to enhance sentiment analysis. International Conference on Computer & Applications, BUE, El Shorouk, Egypt. 17 - 19 Dec 2024. 7 pp . (In Press)

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Emojis are commonly used in social media posts to express sentiment. Most NLP studies clean their text from emojis in the pre-processing stage. This study suggests a framework to analyze sentiment and detect sarcasm by using the Emoji Dictionary (ED) and Sarcasm Detection Approach (SDA) with VADER as a lexicon-based classifier and BERT as a machine learning model to examine the impact of emojis on sentiment classification performance and in detecting sarcasm on three different topic datasets. The study's finding is that keeping emojis, using the ED, and a proposed SDA approach have an effect on increasing classification performance.

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Accepted/In Press date: 1 September 2024
Venue - Dates: International Conference on Computer & Applications, BUE, El Shorouk, Egypt, 2024-12-17 - 2024-12-19
Keywords: sentiment analysis, sarcasm detection, emojis

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Local EPrints ID: 494855
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/494855
PURE UUID: 59031030-c656-425d-bf87-c36f0a4b697f
ORCID for Mark Weal: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6251-8786
ORCID for Wendy Hall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4327-7811

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Date deposited: 17 Oct 2024 16:46
Last modified: 18 Oct 2024 01:33

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Author: Malak Abdullah Alsabban
Author: Mark Weal ORCID iD
Author: Wendy Hall ORCID iD

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