2020

Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Current Challenges and New Directions in Sentiment Analysis Research

Poria, Soujanya, Hazarika, Devamanyu, Majumder, Navonil et al.

Understand

Sentiment analysis as a field has come a long way since it was first introduced as a task nearly 20 years ago.

  • It has widespread commercial applications in various domains like marketing, risk management, market research, and politics, to name a few.
  • Given its saturation in specific subtasks -- such as sentiment polarity classification -- and datasets, there is an underlying perception that this field has reached its maturity.
  • In this article, we discuss this perception by pointing out the shortcomings and under-explored, yet key aspects of this field that are necessary to attain true sentiment understanding.

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