An enhanced approach for sentiment analysis based on meta-ensemble deep learning

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ID4697641
AuthorsRania Kora (0000-0001-5882-8984, Cairo University), Ammar Mohammed (0000-0002-9390-5399, Cairo University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume13
Issue1
Publication date2023-03-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Network Analysis and Mining (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1869-5450 • E-ISSN: 1869-5469
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s13278-023-01043-6
OpenAlexW4322721962
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited76

Sentiment analysis, commonly known as "opinion mining," aims to identify sentiment polarities in opinion texts. Recent years have seen a significant increase in the acceptance of sentiment analysis by academics, businesses, governments, and several other organizations. Numerous deep-learning efforts have been developed to effectively handle more challenging sentiment analysis problems. However, the main difficulty with deep learning approaches is that they require a lot of experience and hard work to tune the optimal hyperparameters, making it a tedious and time-consuming task. Several recent research efforts have attempted to solve this difficulty by combining the power of ensemble learning and deep learning. Many of these efforts have concentrated on simple ensemble techniques, which have some drawbacks. Therefore, this paper makes the following contributions: First, we propose a meta-ensemble deep learning approach to improve the performance of sentiment analysis. In this approach, we train and fuse baseline deep learning models using three levels of meta-learners. Second, we propose the benchmark dataset "Arabic-Egyptian Corpus 2" as an extension of a previous corpus. The corpus size has been increased by 10,000 annotated tweets written in colloquial Arabic on various topics. Third, we conduct several experiments on six benchmark datasets of sentiment analysis in different languages and dialects to evaluate the performance of the proposed meta-ensemble deep learning approach. The experimental results reveal that the meta-ensemble approach effectively outperforms the baseline deep learning models. Also, the experiments reveal that meta-learning improves performance further when the probability class distributions are used to train the meta-learners

Deep learning · Ensemble learning · Hyperparameter · Machine learning · Meta learning (computer science) · Natural language processing · Sentiment analysis · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining · Topic Modeling · Artificial Intelligence

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