Reflections on Sentiment/Opinion Analysis
It suggests potential future directions for sentiment analysis researchers, but it is incremental and lacks immediate practical impact.
The paper tackles the gap between psychology/cognitive science and computational sentiment analysis by proposing a utilitarian model that explains sentiment valence based on the opinion holder's underlying needs and goals, but it presents immature and unstructured thoughts without concrete results or numbers.
In this paper, we described possible directions for deeper understanding, helping bridge the gap between psychology / cognitive science and computational approaches in sentiment/opinion analysis literature. We focus on the opinion holder's underlying needs and their resultant goals, which, in a utilitarian model of sentiment, provides the basis for explaining the reason a sentiment valence is held. While these thoughts are still immature, scattered, unstructured, and even imaginary, we believe that these perspectives might suggest fruitful avenues for various kinds of future work.