Can you tell? SSNet - a Sagittal Stratum-inspired Neural Network Framework for Sentiment Analysis

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June 23, 2020

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Apostol T. Vassilev, Munawar Hasan

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When people try to understand nuanced language they typically process multiple input sensor modalities to complete this cognitive task. It turns out the human brain has even a specialized neuron formation, called sagittal stratum, to help us understand sarcasm. We use this biological formation as the inspiration for designing a neural network architecture that combines predictions of different models on the same text to construct a robust, accurate and computationally efficient classifier for sentiment analysis. Experimental results on representative benchmark datasets and comparisons to other methods show the advantages of the new network architecture.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12958

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natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence

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Vassilev, A. and Hasan, M. (2020), Can you tell? SSNet - a Sagittal Stratum-inspired Neural Network Framework for Sentiment Analysis, e-Print archive, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=930488, https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12958 (Accessed October 9, 2025)