Textual variations affect human judgements of sentiment values

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Highlights:

• Text variations like letter repetition, letter capitalization, emoticon, different punctuations are found to have additional sentiment value compare to the plain text.

• People tend to use text variations to express their emotions within text.

• Text variations can play a significant role in affecting the interpretation of text reviews.

• Current sentiment tools should take into consideration different text variations.

摘要

•Text variations like letter repetition, letter capitalization, emoticon, different punctuations are found to have additional sentiment value compare to the plain text.•People tend to use text variations to express their emotions within text.•Text variations can play a significant role in affecting the interpretation of text reviews.•Current sentiment tools should take into consideration different text variations.

论文关键词:Sentiment analysis,Text analysis,Classification algorithms,Text mining,NLP tools,computer mediated cues (CMC),Punctuation

论文评审过程:Received 21 June 2021, Revised 27 March 2022, Accepted 5 April 2022, Available online 12 April 2022, Version of Record 19 April 2022.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2022.101149