Vishal A S


2025

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Synapse@DravidianLangTech 2025: Multiclass Political Sentiment Analysis in Tamil X (Twitter) Comments: Leveraging Feature Fusion of IndicBERTv2 and Lexical Representations
Suriya Kp | Durai Singh K | Vishal A S | Kishor S | Sachin Kumar S
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages

Social media platforms like X (twitter) have gained popularity for political debates and election campaigns in the last decade. This creates the need to moderate and understand the sentiments of the tweets in order to understand the state of digital campaigns. This paper focuses on political sentiment classification of Tamil X (Twitter) comments which proves to be challenging because of the presence of informal expressions, code-switching, and limited annotated datasets. This study focuses on categorizing them into seven classes: substantiated, sarcastic, opinionated, positive, negative, neutral, and none of the above. This paper proposes a solution to Political Multiclass Sentiment Analysis of Tamil X (Twitter) Comments - DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025 shared task, the solution incorporates IndicBERTv2-MLM-Back-Translation model and TF-IDF vectors into a custom model. Further we explore the use of preprocessing techniques to enrich hashtags and emojis with their context. Our approach achieved Rank 1 with a macro F1 average of 0.38 in the shared task.