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Sentiment Analysis of Portuguese Economic News

Authors Cátia Tavares, Ricardo Ribeiro , Fernando Batista

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Cátia Tavares
  • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal
Ricardo Ribeiro
  • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal
  • INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal
Fernando Batista
  • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal
  • INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

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This work was supported by national funds through FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, under project UIDB/50021/2020.

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Cátia Tavares, Ricardo Ribeiro, and Fernando Batista. Sentiment Analysis of Portuguese Economic News. In 10th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2021). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 94, pp. 17:1-17:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2021.17

Abstract

This paper proposes a rule-based method for automatic polarity detection over economic news texts, which proved suitable for detecting the sentiment in Portuguese economic news. The data used in our experiments consists of 400 manually annotated sentences extracted from economic news, used for evaluation, and about 90 thousand Portuguese economic news, extracted from two well-known Portuguese newspapers, covering the period from 2010 to 2020, that have been used for training our systems. In order to perform sentiment analysis of economic news, we have also tested the adaptation of existing pre-trained modules, and also performed experiments with a set of Machine Learning approaches, and self-training. Experimental results show that our rule-based approach, that uses manually written rules related to the economic context, achieves the best results for automatically detecting the polarity of economic news, largely surpassing the other approaches.

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  • Computing methodologies → Machine learning
  • Information systems → Language models
  • Computing methodologies → Natural language processing
  • Applied computing → Economics
  • Computing methodologies → Language resources
  • Computing methodologies → Artificial intelligence
  • General and reference → Measurement
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  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Economic News
  • Portuguese Language

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