Xinshan Huang¹, Zirui Pei¹, Chaohong Tan², Zuqiang Meng^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.2, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.081626 - 15 June 2026

Abstract Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) plays an important role in understanding social media content; however, existing methods often struggle with the heterogeneity and complex interactions between images and text. These challenges include inter-modal information asymmetry, insufficient feature fusion, and noise interference, which collectively limit robustness and accuracy. To address these issues, we propose a multimodal sentiment classification model termed Multi-Branch Cross-Modal Cross-Attention Gating (MB-CMCAG). The model first incorporates a Transformer-based image caption generation module to convert raw images into semantically rich auxiliary textual descriptions, which complement the original text and form paired textual inputs with enhanced… More >

Hongbin Wang^1,2, Liusong Li^1,2, Di Jiang^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.2, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.079330 - 15 June 2026

Abstract Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to fuse emotional information from data across different modalities to predict human emotional states. Although existing multimodal sentiment analysis methods have made significant progress, the heterogeneity between modalities still leads to an imbalance in feature space distribution, thereby hindering the effective learning and fusion of multimodal representations. In addition, the presence of emotion-irrelevant information in auxiliary modalities is another major factor contributing to differences in feature space distributions. To address this issue, we propose a Hierarchical Contrastive Representation Learning framework with Multimodal Feature Decoupling (HCRL-MFD). To reduce emotion-irrelevant information and optimize… More >

S. Saranya^*, G. Usha

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.41, pp. 25-25, 2026, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2026.085938 - 04 June 2026

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Shuvodeep De^1,*, Agnivo Gosai^2,#, Karun Thankachan^3,#, Ramadan A. ZeinEldin⁴, Abdulaziz T. Almaktoom⁵, Mustafa Bayram⁶, Ali Wagdy Mohamed^7,8,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.147, No.2, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2026.080601 - 27 May 2026

Abstract Sentiment analysis (SA) has evolved from a niche text-classification task into a central problem in natural language processing, spanning multiple domains, modalities, and languages. This survey provides a comprehensive review of sentiment analysis methods from their origins in lexicon-based approaches through classical machine learning, deep learning architectures, pre-trained transformers, and the current era of large language models (LLMs). We formalize the SA problem across multiple granularity levels (document, sentence, and aspect) and present a taxonomy that encompasses classification, regression, aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA), emotion detection, and stance detection tasks across diverse domains including movie reviews,… More >

Soumalya De¹, Rahil Akhtar², Saiyed Umer², Ranjeet Kumar Rout³, G. G. Md. Nawaz Ali^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.1, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.079340 - 08 May 2026

Abstract This work presents a comprehensive sustainable sentiment analysis system utilizing textual data, designed within a structured client-server architecture for real-time deployment. The system integrates dual feature representations Bag-of-Words (BoW) and Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) whose prediction scores are combined through a parameter-free score-level fusion strategy. The implementation of the proposed system consists of five major components. The first component involves the acquisition of textual data from various sources, followed by rigorous text preprocessing to eliminate noise and enhance data quality. The second component focuses on feature extraction, ensuring that the extracted features not only… More >

Choongwon Kang^1,2, Haein Lee^3,4, Jang Hyun Kim^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.1, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.078997 - 08 May 2026

Abstract With the rapid growth of social media and frequent anonymous interactions, hate speech has become widespread. As users express diverse opinions in digital spaces, the need for effective detection remains crucial. To address this, we propose a framework applicable to diverse hate speech types, combining sentence-level semantic representation vectors from the pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) with sentiment score vectors from the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) dictionary and the Valence Aware Dictionary for sEntiment Reasoning (VADER). This semantic-sentiment fusion integrates three deep learning models—Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), More >

Shuqiu Tan, Chunsheng Tan, Yahui Liu^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.88, No.1, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.077982 - 08 May 2026

Abstract Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to accurately identify emotional states by comprehensively utilizing information from multiple sources such as text, audio, and visual data. However, semantic heterogeneity and temporal differences exist between different modalities, limiting the effectiveness of feature fusion. To address this issue, this paper proposes a hierarchical joint cross-modal attention and gating mechanism (HJCAG) for multimodal sentiment analysis. This method introduces a hierarchical structure, dividing modal interactions into bimodal and trimodal layers to progressively model the semantic relevance between modalities. First, deep features are extracted from text, audio, and visual modalities using pre-trained models… More >

Zilin Zhang¹, Yan Liu^1,*, Jia Liu², Senbao Hou³, Yuping Zhang¹, Chenyuan Wang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.86, No.2, pp. 1-14, 2026, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.072286 - 09 December 2025

Abstract With the growing demand for more comprehensive and nuanced sentiment understanding, Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) has gained significant traction in recent years and continues to attract widespread attention in the academic community. Despite notable advances, existing approaches still face critical challenges in both information modeling and modality fusion. On one hand, many current methods rely heavily on encoders to extract global features from each modality, which limits their ability to capture latent fine-grained emotional cues within modalities. On the other hand, prevailing fusion strategies often lack mechanisms to model semantic discrepancies across modalities and to… More >

Palak Bari, Gurnur Bedi, Khushi Joshi, Anupama Jawale^*

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.7, pp. 499-508, 2025, DOI:10.32604/jai.2025.072531 - 17 November 2025

Abstract This study investigates sarcasm detection in text using a dataset of 8095 sentences compiled from MUStARD and HuggingFace repositories, balanced across sarcastic and non-sarcastic classes. A sequential baseline model (LSTM) is compared with transformer-based models (RoBERTa and XLNet), integrated with attention mechanisms. Transformers were chosen for their proven ability to capture long-range contextual dependencies, whereas LSTM serves as a traditional benchmark for sequential modeling. Experimental results show that RoBERTa achieves 0.87 accuracy, XLNet 0.83, and LSTM 0.52. These findings confirm that transformer architectures significantly outperform recurrent models in sarcasm detection. Future work will incorporate multimodal More >

Dan Wang¹, Zhoubin Li¹, Yuze Xia^1,2,*, Zhenhua Yu^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.3, pp. 5823-5845, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.071656 - 23 October 2025

Abstract Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (MABSA) aims to detect sentiment polarity toward specific aspects by leveraging both textual and visual inputs. However, existing models suffer from weak aspect-image alignment, modality imbalance dominated by textual signals, and limited reasoning for implicit or ambiguous sentiments requiring external knowledge. To address these issues, we propose a unified framework named Gated-Linear Aspect-Aware Multimodal Sentiment Network (GLAMSNet). First of all, an input encoding module is employed to construct modality-specific and aspect-aware representations. Subsequently, we introduce an image–aspect correlation matching module to provide hierarchical supervision for visual-textual alignment. Building upon these components, More >