Applying sentiment analysis on Spanish tweets using BETO

Abstract

Emotion analysis of messages using machine learning techniques is a difficult and cumbersome task requiring a major effort to obtain reliable results. This challenge is even more pronounced when the target language is not English, but Spanish. To overcome this challenge, this paper describes how UPC Team applied sentiment analysis on social media messages (in particular, on Twitter) written in Spanish and, related to events that took place in April 2019 from different domains. To this aim, we present a machine learning model based on BERT and describe the results obtained to reach an accuracy of 65% approx. and the 12th position in the ranking, for this second edition of the contest for emotion detection of Spanish tweets EmoEva-lEs@IberLEF2021.