Bi-modal Image-Text Fusion for Sentiment Analysis
摘要
Sentiment analysis of memes is crucial in domains such as finance and politics, but the focus has been mainly on English. This study presents our test dataset MemoSen, and a proposed bimodal system dedicated to memes, integrating both text and image, with three sentiment labels: positive, negative, and neutral. A detailed annotation manual is provided to facilitate the development of new resources in this area, thus promoting the extension of sentiment analysis to various languages. Our first model, which integrates a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), branches to process both images and text using a concatenation merge, and achieves a validation performance of an Area Under the Curve (AUC) about 100%. The second model, based on VGG16, achieved an AUC of 99.56%, while the third model, based on ResNet50, achieved an AUC of 98.69%.