SenWave: A Fine-Grained Multi-Language Sentiment Analysis Dataset Sourced from COVID-19 Tweets
This provides a new dataset for NLP researchers working on fine-grained sentiment analysis of COVID-19 tweets across multiple languages, though it is incremental in combining existing methods with new data.
The authors tackled the problem of limited labeled data and coarse sentiment labels in COVID-19 analysis by creating SenWave, a fine-grained multi-language sentiment analysis dataset with 10,000 annotated tweets each in English and Arabic, plus 30,000 translated tweets in three other languages, and fine-tuned transformer models for classification.
The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for a comprehensive understanding of public sentiment and reactions. Despite the availability of numerous public datasets on COVID-19, some reaching volumes of up to 100 billion data points, challenges persist regarding the availability of labeled data and the presence of coarse-grained or inappropriate sentiment labels. In this paper, we introduce SenWave, a novel fine-grained multi-language sentiment analysis dataset specifically designed for analyzing COVID-19 tweets, featuring ten sentiment categories across five languages. The dataset comprises 10,000 annotated tweets each in English and Arabic, along with 30,000 translated tweets in Spanish, French, and Italian, derived from English tweets. Additionally, it includes over 105 million unlabeled tweets collected during various COVID-19 waves. To enable accurate fine-grained sentiment classification, we fine-tuned pre-trained transformer-based language models using the labeled tweets. Our study provides an in-depth analysis of the evolving emotional landscape across languages, countries, and topics, revealing significant insights over time. Furthermore, we assess the compatibility of our dataset with ChatGPT, demonstrating its robustness and versatility in various applications. Our dataset and accompanying code are publicly accessible on the repository\footnote{https://github.com/gitdevqiang/SenWave}. We anticipate that this work will foster further exploration into fine-grained sentiment analysis for complex events within the NLP community, promoting more nuanced understanding and research innovations.