arXiv:2412.06951cs.CLcs.LG2024-12被引 1

用NLP分析东非三国民众对公交的评价,发现肯尼亚和南非普遍不满,坦桑尼亚多为宣传性正面评论。

Analysing Public Transport User Sentiment on Low Resource Multilingual Data

  • 用AfriBERTa等多语言模型处理斯瓦希里语等低资源语言的公交评论
  • 肯尼亚和南非多数评论负面,坦桑尼亚因广告内容呈正向
  • 结合词向量与聚类,挖掘出用户关注的核心问题

许多撒哈拉以南非洲国家的公共交通系统长期缺乏关注,亟需创新手段提升服务质量与用户体验。本研究通过定性分析,考察了肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚和南非民众对铁路、小巴及公交车的出行感受。利用X(原推特)平台数据,采用AfriBERTa、AfroXLMR、AfroLM和PuoBERTa等预训练语言模型,应对多语言混杂与代码切换问题,展示自然语言处理在低资源语言中的应用潜力。结果显示,肯尼亚与南非以负面情绪为主,而坦桑尼亚数据集则以正面情绪为主,源于大量宣传性推文。通过Word2Vec特征提取与K-Means聚类,揭示了各数据集中潜在的主题关系。该研究为构建更贴近用户需求的公共交通系统提供依据,助力城市可持续出行发展。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Public transport systems in many Sub-Saharan countries often receive less attention compared to other sectors, underscoring the need for innovative solutions to improve the Quality of Service (QoS) and overall user experience. This study explored commuter opinion mining to understand sentiments toward existing public transport systems in Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. We used a qualitative research design, analysing data from X (formerly Twitter) to assess sentiments across rail, mini-bus taxis, and buses. By leveraging Multilingual Opinion Mining techniques, we addressed the linguistic diversity and code-switching present in our dataset, thus demonstrating the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in extracting insights from under-resourced languages. We employed PLMs such as AfriBERTa, AfroXLMR, AfroLM, and PuoBERTa to conduct the sentiment analysis. The results revealed predominantly negative sentiments in South Africa and Kenya, while the Tanzanian dataset showed mainly positive sentiments due to the advertising nature of the tweets. Furthermore, feature extraction using the Word2Vec model and K-Means clustering illuminated semantic relationships and primary themes found within the different datasets. By prioritising the analysis of user experiences and sentiments, this research paves the way for developing more responsive, user-centered public transport systems in Sub-Saharan countries, contributing to the broader goal of improving urban mobility and sustainability.

情感分析低资源语言公共运输NLP

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