journal article·2025-09-07Open access

MMKT: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Model Based on Knowledge-Enhanced and Text-Guided Learning

Chengkai Shi, Yunhua Zhang

Applied Sciences· Volume 15· Issue 17

Abstract

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to predict subjective human emotions by leveraging multimodal information. However, existing research inadequately utilizes explicit sentiment semantic information at the lexical level in text and overlooks noise interference from non-dominant modalities, such as irrelevant movements in visual modalities and background noise in audio modalities. To address this issue, we propose a multimodal sentiment analysis model based on knowledge enhancement and text-guided learning (MMKT). The model constructs a sentiment knowledge graph for the textual modality using the SenticNet knowledge base. This graph directly annotates word-level sentiment polarity, strengthening the model’s understanding of emotional vocabulary. Furthermore, global sentiment knowledge features are generated through graph embedding computations to enhance the multimodal fusion process. Simultaneously, a dynamic text-guided learning approach is introduced, which dynamically leverages multi-scale textual features to actively suppress redundant or conflicting information in visual and audio modalities, thereby generating purer cross-modal representations. Finally, concatenated textual features, cross-modal features, and knowledge features are utilized for sentiment prediction. Experimental results on the CMU-MOSEI and Twitter2019 dataset demonstrate the superior performance of the MMKT model.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques · Emotion and Mood Recognition

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Affiliations

School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China

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