Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic: investigating the interest of character-level features

Dhaou Ghoul, Gaël Lejeune


Abstract
We present three methods developed for the Shared Task on Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic. We present a baseline that uses character n-gram features. We also propose two more sophisticated methods: a recurrent neural network with a word level representation and an ensemble classifier relying on word and character-level features. We chose to present results from an ensemble classifier but it was not very successful as compared to the best systems : 22th/37 on sarcasm detection and 15th/22 on sentiment detection. It finally appeared that our baseline could have been improved and beat those results.
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2021.wanlp-1.41
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Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
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April
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2021
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Kyiv, Ukraine (Virtual)
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WANLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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329–333
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Dhaou Ghoul and Gaël Lejeune. 2021. Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic: investigating the interest of character-level features. In Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 329–333, Kyiv, Ukraine (Virtual). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic: investigating the interest of character-level features (Ghoul & Lejeune, WANLP 2021)
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