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Empirical Study of BERT-Based Models for Sentiment Analysis

2025· article· W4416799345 on OpenAlexaff
Bo Huang, Fei Song

Bibliographic record

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Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicSentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSentiment analysisEmpirical researchSocial mediaClass (philosophy)Deep learningLanguage modelNatural language

Abstract

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The rapid expansion of online applications like social media apps and e-commerce websites has led to a large volume of reviews about different subjects, products, and services. Sentiment analysis, which is a crucial area of study in natural language processing, aims to classify the sentiments of these reviews so that the feedback can be valuable to companies, governments, and individuals in making informed decisions based on the information gathered about the public opinions. The emerging deep learning methods, such as large language models have shown great promises in text-based analysis, but their performance for sentiment analysis has not been fully understood yet. This paper presents a comparative analysis of BERT-based models for sentiment analysis, especially those using prompt-based learning techniques across five diverse datasets. We explore how dataset characteristics influence the effectiveness of hand-crafted, adaptive, and hybrid prompting strategies. Our results demonstrate that input length, class distribution, and dataset structure significantly impact model performance.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.042
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.065

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.042
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.064
GPT teacher head0.368
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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