Title
A Meta-Framework for Modeling the Human Reading Process in Sentiment Analysis.
Abstract
This article introduces a sentiment analysis approach that adopts the way humans read, interpret, and extract sentiment from text. Our motivation builds on the assumption that human interpretation should lead to the most accurate assessment of sentiment in text. We call this automated process Human Reading for Sentiment (HRS). Previous research in sentiment analysis has produced many frameworks that can fit one or more of the HRS aspects; however, none of these methods has addressed them all in one approach. HRS provides a meta-framework for developing new sentiment analysis methods or improving existing ones. The proposed framework provides a theoretical lens for zooming in and evaluating aspects of any sentiment analysis method to identify gaps for improvements towards matching the human reading process. Key steps in HRS include the automation of humans low-level and high-level cognitive text processing. This methodology paves the way towards the integration of psychology with computational linguistics and machine learning to employ models of pragmatics and discourse analysis for sentiment analysis. HRS is tested with two state-of-the-art methods; one is based on feature engineering, and the other is based on deep learning. HRS highlighted the gaps in both methods and showed improvements for both.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2950050
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Sentiment analysis,human reading,psychology,supervised learning and notions
Data mining,Pragmatics,Computer science,Automation,Discourse analysis,Feature engineering,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Deep learning,Text processing,Information retrieval,Sentiment analysis,Computational linguistics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
1
1046-8188
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
42
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ramy Baly1868.07
Hazem Hajj215418.16
Hazem M. Hajj34614.04
Wassim El-Hajj416121.00
Khaled Bashir Shaban513319.74
Ahmad A. Al Sallab6303.49