Context-Aware Sentiment Analysis using Tweet Expansion Method

The large source of information space produced by the plethora of social media platforms in general and microblogging in particular has spawned a slew of new applications and prompted the rise and expansion of sentiment analysis research. We propose a sentiment analysis technique that identifies the main parts to describe tweet intent and also enriches them with relevant words, phrases, or even inferred variables. We followed a state-of-the-art hybrid deep learning model to combine Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and the Long Short-Term Memory network (LSTM) to classify tweet data based on their polarity. To preserve the latent relationships between tweet terms and their expanded representation, sentence encoding and contextualized word embeddings are utilized. To investigate the performance of tweet embeddings on the sentiment analysis task, we tested several context-free models (Word2Vec, Sentence2Vec, Glove, and FastText), a dynamic embedding model (BERT), deep contextualized word representations (ELMo), and an entity-based model (Wikipedia). The proposed method and results prove that text enrichment improves the accuracy of sentiment polarity classification with a notable percentage.