Exploring Transformer-based Approaches in Sentiment Prediction of Philippine Tweets

Marcus Calalang*, Miguel Estañol*, Jon Jacinto*, Mauries Lopez*, Eric Denver Co*, John Matthew Gan*, Jose Noel Noblefranca*, Jason Jan Jabanes, Edward Tighe^# (* equal contribution, ^# corresponding author)

DLSU Research Congress 2025 2025

Previous research in Philippine sentiment analysis has largely depended on traditional machine-learning approaches and manual annotation processes, resulting in smaller, less representative datasets. This study explores an emoji-based automatic annotation combined with transformer models to enhance sentiment analysis in Philippine social media.

Modeling Personality Traits by Predicting Questionnaire Responses as an Alternative Approach to Filipino Automatic Personality Recognition

Alessandra Pauleen I. Gomez*, Ibrahim D. Kahil*, Shaun Vincent N. Ong*, Edward P. Tighe^# (* equal contribution, ^# corresponding author)

Proceedings of the 38th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) 2024

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Collection Methods and Data Characteristics of the PagkataoKo Dataset

Edward Tighe^#, Luigi Acorda*, Alexander Agno II*, Jesah Gano*, Timothy Go*, Gabriel Santiago*, Claude Sedillo* (* equal contribution, ^# corresponding author)

36th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) 2022 Spotlight

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Exploring Neural Network Approaches in Automatic Personality Recognition of Filipino Twitter Users

Edward Tighe^#, Oya Aran, Charibeth Cheng (^# corresponding author)

20th Philippine Computer Science Congress (PCSC) 2020

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Establishing the Most Appropriate, Formal and Academic Filipino Translation of the Term “Male Homosexual”

Mary Irene Clare O. Deleña, Ana Grace R. Masalunga, Edward P. Tighe, Feorillo Petronilo A. Demeterio III

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences 2019

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Modeling Personality Traits of Filipino Twitter Users

Edward P. Tighe^#, Charibeth Cheng (^# corresponding author)

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES) 2018

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Personality Trait Classification of Essays with the Application of Feature Reduction

Edward P. Tighe^#, Jennifer C. Ureta, Bernard Andrei L. Pollo, Charibeth Cheng, Remedios de Dios Bulos (^# corresponding author)

4th Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 2016), IJCAI 2016 2016

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RHIA: Building a Music Provision System for College Students Based on Stress Levels

Maritoni Escalona*, Ricco Laxamana*, Kevin Pagtakhan*, Merlin Teodosia Suarez, Edward Tighe*, Rhia Trogo (* equal contribution)

14th Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC 2014) 2014

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