Emoji-based Co-attention Network for Microblog Sentiment Analysis. (arXiv:2110.14227v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

Emojis are widely used in online social networks to express emotions,
attitudes, and opinions. As emotional-oriented characters, emojis can be
modeled as important features of emotions towards the recipient or subject for
sentiment analysis. However, existing methods mainly take emojis as heuristic
information that fails to resolve the problem of ambiguity noise. Recent
researches have utilized emojis as an independent input to classify text
sentiment but they ignore the emotional impact of the interaction between text
and emojis. It results …

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