Convolutional neural networks for multimedia sentiment analysis

Abstract

Recently, user generated multimedia contents (e.g. text, image, speech and video) on social media are increasingly used to share their experiences and emotions, for example, a tweet usually contains both texts and images. Compared to sentiment analysis of texts and images separately, the combination of text and image may reveal tweet sentiment more adequately. Motivated by this rationale, we propose a method based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) for multimedia (tweets consist of text and image) sentiment analysis. Two individual CNN architectures are used for learning textual features and visual features, which can be combined as input of another CNN architecture for exploiting the internal relation between text and image. Experimental results on two real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves effective performance on multimedia sentiment analysis by capturing the combined information of texts and images.