Sentiment analysis as a field has come a long way since it was first introduced as a task nearly 20 years ago. It has widespread commercial applications in various domains like marketing, risk management, market research, and politics, to name a few. Given its saturation in specific subtasks — such as sentiment polarity classification — and datasets, there is an underlying perception that this field has reached its maturity.
Interested to know our take on the current challenges and future directions of this field using the following papers as compass?
Read this paper – Beneath the tip of the iceberg: Current challenges and new directions in sentiment analysis research. Soujanya Poria, Devamanyu Hazarika, Navonil Majumder, and Rada Mihalcea. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2020).