Fine-tuning Neural Language Models for Multidimensional Opinion Mining of English-Maltese Social Data

Abstract

This paper presents multidimensional Social Opinion Mining on user-generated content gathered from newswires and social networking services in three different languages: English -a high-resourced language, Maltese -a low-resourced language, and Maltese-English -a code-switched language. Multiple fine-tuned neural classification language models which cater for the i) English, Maltese and Maltese-English languages as well as ii) five different social opinion dimensions, namely subjectivity, sentiment polarity, emotion, irony and sarcasm, are presented. Results per classification model for each social opinion dimension are discussed.