Is ChatGPT a Good Sentiment Analyzer? A Preliminary Study

arXiv:2304.04339v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recently, ChatGPT has drawn great attention from both the research community and the public. We are particularly interested in whether it can serve as a universal sentiment analyzer. To this end, in this work, we provide a preliminary evaluation of ChatGPT on the understanding of \emph{opinions}, \emph{sentiments}, and \emph{emotions} contained in the text. Specifically, we evaluate it in three settings, including \emph{standard} evaluation, \emph{polarity shift} evaluation and \emph{open-domain} evaluation. We conduct an evaluation on 7 …

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