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Content-aware sentiment understanding: cross-modal analysis with encoder-decoder architectures

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  • Zahra Pakdaman

    (Islamic Azad University)

  • Abbas Koochari

    (Islamic Azad University)

  • Arash Sharifi

    (Islamic Azad University)

Abstract

The analysis of sentiment from social media data has attracted significant attention due to the proliferation of user-generated opinions and comments on these platforms. Social media content is often multi-modal, frequently combining images and text within single posts. To effectively estimate user sentiment across multiple content types, this study proposes a multimodal content-aware approach. It distinguishes text-dominant images, memes, and regular images, extracting embedded text from memes or text-dominant images. Using the Swin Transformer-GPT-2 (encoder-decoder) architecture, captions are generated for image analysis. The user’s sentiment is then estimated by analyzing embedded text, generated captions, and user-provided captions through a BiLSTM-LSTM (encoder-decoder) architecture and fully connected layers. The proposed method demonstrates superior performance, achieving 93% accuracy on the MVSA-Single dataset, 79% accuracy on the MVSA-Multiple dataset, and 90% accuracy on the TWITTER (Large) dataset surpassing current state-of-the-art methods.

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  • Zahra Pakdaman & Abbas Koochari & Arash Sharifi, 2025. "Content-aware sentiment understanding: cross-modal analysis with encoder-decoder architectures," Journal of Computational Social Science, Springer, vol. 8(2), pages 1-24, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jcsosc:v:8:y:2025:i:2:d:10.1007_s42001-025-00374-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s42001-025-00374-y
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