(ICCC 2023) Ethereum Public Opinion Analysis Based on Attention Mechanism

With the rapid development of Ethereum, vast amounts of data are recorded on the blockchain through transactions, encompassing diverse and extensive textual information. While Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models have shown remarkable effectiveness in sentiment analysis tasks in recent years, they often encounter situations where different features have equal importance when processing such textual data. Therefore, this study introduces a Bidirectional LSTM model with a Multi-Head Attention mechanism (MABLSTM) designed for sentiment analysis tasks in Ethereum transaction texts. BLSTM consists of two distinct and independent LSTMs that consider information flow from two directions, capturing contextual information from both the past and the future. The outputs from the BLSTM layer are enhanced using a multi-head attention mechanism to amplify the importance of sentiment words and blockchain-specific terms. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of MABLSTM on Ethereum transaction data through experiments conducted on an Ethereum transaction dataset, comparing MABLSTM with CNN, SVM, ABLSTM and ABCDM. The results demonstrate the effective-ness and superiority of MABLSTM in sentiment analysis tasks. This ap-proach accurately analyzes sentiment polarity in Ethereum transaction texts, providing valuable information for Ethereum participants and researchers to support decision-making and emotional analysis.