Multimodal Sentiment Analysis: A Survey of Methods, Trends, and Challenges

Sentiment analysis has come long way since it was introduced as a natural language processing task nearly 20 years ago. Sentiment analysis aims to extract the underlying attitudes and opinions toward an entity. It has become a powerful tool used by governments, businesses, medicine, marketing, and others. The traditional sentiment analysis model focuses mainly on text content. However, technological advances have allowed people to express their opinions and feelings through audio, image and video channels. As a result, sentiment analysis is shifting from unimodality to multimodality. Multimodal sentiment analysis brings new opportunities with the rapid increase of sentiment analysis as complementary data…

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  National Institute of Technology, Silchar