Recent neural conversation models that attempted to incorporate emotion and generate empathetic responses either focused on conditioning the output to a given emotion, or incorporating the current user emotional state. While these approaches have been successful to some extent in generating more diverse and seemingly engaging utterances, they do not factor in how the user would feel towards the generated dialogue response. Hence, in this paper, we advocate such look-ahead of user emotion as the key to modeling and generating empathetic dialogue responses. We thus train a Sentiment Predictor to estimate the user sentiment look-ahead towards the generated system responses, which is then used as the reward function for generating more empathetic responses. Human evaluation results show that our model outperforms other baselines in empathy, relevance, and fluency.
Developing moral awareness in intelligent systems has shifted from a topic of philosophical inquiry to a critical and practical issue in artificial intelligence over the past decades. However, automated inference of everyday moral situations remains an under-explored problem. We present a text-based approach that predicts people's intuitive judgment of moral vignettes. Our methodology builds on recent work in contextualized language models and textual inference of moral sentiment. We show that a contextualized representation offers a substantial advantage over alternative representations based on word embeddings and emotion sentiment in inferring human moral judgment, evaluated and reflected in three independent datasets from moral psychology. We discuss the promise and limitations of our approach toward automated textual moral reasoning.
Opinion mining and sentiment analysis in social media is a research issue having a great interest in the scientific community. However, before begin this analysis, we are faced with a set of problems. In particular, the problem of the richness of languages and dialects within these media. To address this problem, we propose in this paper an approach of construction and implementation of Syntactic analyzer named ASDA. This tool represents a parser for the Algerian dialect that label the terms of a given corpus. Thus, we construct a labeling table containing for each term its stem, different prefixes and suffixes, allowing us to determine the different grammatical parts a sort of POS tagging. This labeling will serve us later in the semantic processing of the Algerian dialect, like the automatic translation of this dialect or sentiment analysis
Subjective language detection is one of the most important challenges in Sentiment Analysis. Because of the weight and frequency in opinionated texts, adjectives are considered a key piece in the opinion extraction process. These subjective units are more and more frequently collected in polarity lexicons in which they appear annotated with their prior polarity. However, at the moment, any polarity lexicon takes into account prior polarity variations across domains. This paper proves that a majority of adjectives change their prior polarity value depending on the domain. We propose a distinction between domain dependent and domain independent adjectives. Moreover, our analysis led us to propose a further classification related to subjectivity degree: constant, mixed and highly subjective adjectives. Following this classification, polarity values will be a better support for Sentiment Analysis.
Over the past decade, millions of companies have filed for bankruptcy. This has been caused by a plethora of reasons, namely, high interest rates, heavy debts and government regulations. The effect of a company going bankrupt can be devastating, hurting not only workers and shareholders, but also clients, suppliers and any related external companies. One of the aims of this paper is to provide a framework for company bankruptcy to be predicted by making use of financial figures, provided by our external dataset, in conjunction with the sentiment of news articles about certain sectors. News articles are used to attempt to quantify the sentiment on a company and its sector from an external perspective, rather than simply using internal figures. This work builds on previous studies carried out by multiple researchers, to bring us closer to lessening the impact of such events.
This paper proposes a novel adaptive algorithm for the automated short-term trading of financial instrument. The algorithm adopts a semantic sentiment analysis technique to inspect the Twitter posts and to use them to predict the behaviour of the stock market. Indeed, the algorithm is specifically developed to take advantage of both the sentiment and the past values of a certain financial instrument in order to choose the best investment decision. This allows the algorithm to ensure the maximization of the obtainable profits by trading on the stock market. We have conducted an investment simulation and compared the performance of our proposed with a well-known benchmark (DJTATO index) and the optimal results, in which an investor knows in advance the future price of a product. The result shows that our approach outperforms the benchmark and achieves the performance score close to the optimal result.
Mental health is a critical issue in the modern society, mental disorders could sometimes turn to suicidal ideation without effective treatment. Early detection of mental disorders and suicidal ideation from social content provides a potential way for effective social intervention. Classifying suicidal ideation and other mental disorders, however, is a challenging task as they share quite similar patterns in language usage and sentimental polarity. In this paper, we enhance text representation with lexicon-based sentiment scores and latent topics, and propose to use relation networks for detecting suicidal ideation and mental disorders with related risk indicators. The relation module is further equipped with the attention mechanism to prioritize more important relational features. Through experiments on three real-world datasets, our model outperforms most of its counterparts.
This work proposes a novel algorithm to generate natural language adversarial input for text classification models, in order to investigate the robustness of these models. It involves applying gradient-based perturbation on the sentence embeddings that are used as the features for the classifier, and learning a decoder for generation. We employ this method to a sentiment analysis model and verify its effectiveness in inducing incorrect predictions by the model. We also conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis on these examples and demonstrate that our approach can generate more natural adversaries. In addition, it can be used to successfully perform black-box attacks, which involves attacking other existing models whose parameters are not known. On a public sentiment analysis API, the proposed method introduces a 20% relative decrease in average accuracy and 74% relative increase in absolute error.
Predicting stock prices from textual information is a challenging task due to the uncertainty of the market and the difficulty understanding the natural language from a machine's perspective. Previous researches focus mostly on sentiment extraction based on single news. However, the stocks on the financial market can be highly correlated, one news regarding one stock can quickly impact the prices of other stocks. To take this effect into account, we propose a new stock movement prediction framework: Multi-Graph Recurrent Network for Stock Forecasting (MGRN). This architecture allows to combine the textual sentiment from financial news and multiple relational information extracted from other financial data. Through an accuracy test and a trading simulation on the stocks in the STOXX Europe 600 index, we demonstrate a better performance from our model than other benchmarks.
The marvel of markets lies in the fact that dispersed information is instantaneously processed and used to adjust the price of goods, services and assets. Financial markets are particularly efficient when it comes to processing information; such information is typically embedded in textual news that is then interpreted by investors. Quite recently, researchers have started to automatically determine news sentiment in order to explain stock price movements. Interestingly, this so-called news sentiment works fairly well in explaining stock returns. In this paper, we design trading strategies that utilize textual news in order to obtain profits on the basis of novel information entering the market. We thus propose approaches for automated decision-making based on supervised and reinforcement learning. Altogether, we demonstrate how news-based data can be incorporated into an investment system.
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