A Survey on the Impact of Pre-Trained Language Models in Sentiment Classification Task
摘要
The evolution of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has significantly transformed the landscape of sentiment analysis, particularly in handling complex, noisy, informal, and short-text commonly found on social media. While numerous surveys have explored PLMs and sentiment analysis separately, few provide a focused evaluation of large language models (LLMs) in the context of sentiment classification across diverse, real-world datasets. This survey addresses that gap by systematically comparing traditional sentiment analysis techniques—such as lexicon-based, machine learning, and deep learning approaches—with modern large pre-trained language models, using text-based unimodal and multimodal benchmark dataset. Our survey offers a detailed knowledge of how transformer-based architectures, including models like BERT, RoBERTa, GPT