scholarly journals Stance Classification with Target-specific Neural Attention

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiachen Du ◽  
Ruifeng Xu ◽  
Yulan He ◽  
Lin Gui
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Attention Mechanism ◽  
Sentiment Classification ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Target Information ◽  
Specific Target ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Text Content

Stance classification, which aims at detecting the stance expressed in text towards a specific target, is an emerging problem in sentiment analysis. A major difference between stance classification and traditional aspect-level sentiment classification is that the identification of stance is dependent on target which might not be explicitly mentioned in text. This indicates that apart from text content, the target information is important to stance detection. To this end, we propose a neural network-based model, which incorporates target-specific information into stance classification by following a novel attention mechanism. In specific, the attention mechanism is expected to locate the critical parts of text which are related to target. Our evaluations on both the English and Chinese Stance Detection datasets show that the proposed model achieves the state-of-the-art performance.

scholarly journals Relational Graph Neural Network with Hierarchical Attention for Knowledge Graph Completion

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (05) ◽  
pp. 9612-9619
Author(s):  
Zhao Zhang ◽  
Fuzhen Zhuang ◽  
Hengshu Zhu ◽  
Zhiping Shi ◽  
Hui Xiong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Missing Values ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Attention Mechanism ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Incomplete Knowledge ◽  
Neighborhood Information ◽  
Local Neighborhood ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Knowledge Graphs

The rapid proliferation of knowledge graphs (KGs) has changed the paradigm for various AI-related applications. Despite their large sizes, modern KGs are far from complete and comprehensive. This has motivated the research in knowledge graph completion (KGC), which aims to infer missing values in incomplete knowledge triples. However, most existing KGC models treat the triples in KGs independently without leveraging the inherent and valuable information from the local neighborhood surrounding an entity. To this end, we propose a Relational Graph neural network with Hierarchical ATtention (RGHAT) for the KGC task. The proposed model is equipped with a two-level attention mechanism: (i) the first level is the relation-level attention, which is inspired by the intuition that different relations have different weights for indicating an entity; (ii) the second level is the entity-level attention, which enables our model to highlight the importance of different neighboring entities under the same relation. The hierarchical attention mechanism makes our model more effective to utilize the neighborhood information of an entity. Finally, we extensively validate the superiority of RGHAT against various state-of-the-art baselines.

scholarly journals A Span-based Joint Model for Opinion Target Extraction and Target Sentiment Classification

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Zhou ◽  
Longtao Huang ◽  
Tao Guo ◽  
Jizhong Han ◽  
Songlin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Joint Model ◽  
The State ◽  
Attention Mechanism ◽  
Sentiment Classification ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Target Extraction ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
Tagging Methods

Target-Based Sentiment Analysis aims at extracting opinion targets and classifying the sentiment polarities expressed on each target. Recently, token based sequence tagging methods have been successfully applied to jointly solve the two tasks, which aims to predict a tag for each token. Since they do not treat a target containing several words as a whole, it might be difficult to make use of the global information to identify that opinion target, leading to incorrect extraction. Independently predicting the sentiment for each token may also lead to sentiment inconsistency for different words in an opinion target. In this paper, inspired by span-based methods in NLP, we propose a simple and effective joint model to conduct extraction and classification at span level rather than token level. Our model first emulates spans with one or more tokens and learns their representation based on the tokens inside. And then, a span-aware attention mechanism is designed to compute the sentiment information towards each span. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets show that our model consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis Based on Position Features Using Multilevel Interactive Bidirectional GRU and Attention Mechanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Xiaodi Wang ◽  
Xiaoliang Chen ◽  
Mingwei Tang ◽  
Tian Yang ◽  
Zhen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Attention Mechanism ◽  
Sentiment Classification ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Neural Network Models ◽  
Position Information ◽  
Gated Recurrent Unit ◽  
Relative Position Information

The aim of aspect-level sentiment analysis is to identify the sentiment polarity of a given target term in sentences. Existing neural network models provide a useful account of how to judge the polarity. However, context relative position information for the target terms is adversely ignored under the limitation of training datasets. Considering position features between words into the models can improve the accuracy of sentiment classification. Hence, this study proposes an improved classification model by combining multilevel interactive bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), attention mechanisms, and position features (MI-biGRU). Firstly, the position features of words in a sentence are initialized to enrich word embedding. Secondly, the approach extracts the features of target terms and context by using a well-constructed multilevel interactive bidirectional neural network. Thirdly, an attention mechanism is introduced so that the model can pay greater attention to those words that are important for sentiment analysis. Finally, four classic sentiment classification datasets are used to deal with aspect-level tasks. Experimental results indicate that there is a correlation between the multilevel interactive attention network and the position features. MI-biGRU can obviously improve the performance of classification.

scholarly journals Target-Guided Structured Attention Network for Target-Dependent Sentiment Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 172-182
Author(s):  
Ji Zhang ◽  
Chengyao Chen ◽  
Pengfei Liu ◽  
Chao He ◽  
Cane Wing-Ki Leung
Keyword(s):  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Semantic Relatedness ◽  
The State ◽  
Attention Mechanism ◽  
Sentiment Classification ◽  
Context Sentence ◽  
Attention Network ◽  
Novel Target

Target-dependent sentiment analysis (TDSA) aims to classify the sentiment of a text towards a given target. The major challenge of this task lies in modeling the semantic relatedness between a target and its context sentence. This paper proposes a novel Target-Guided Structured Attention Network (TG-SAN), which captures target-related contexts for TDSA in a fine-to-coarse manner. Given a target and its context sentence, the proposed TG-SAN first identifies multiple semantic segments from the sentence using a target-guided structured attention mechanism. It then fuses the extracted segments based on their relatedness with the target for sentiment classification. We present comprehensive comparative experiments on three benchmarks with three major findings. First, TG-SAN outperforms the state-of-the-art by up to 1.61% and 3.58% in terms of accuracy and Marco-F1, respectively. Second, it shows a strong advantage in determining the sentiment of a target when the context sentence contains multiple semantic segments. Lastly, visualization results show that the attention scores produced by TG-SAN are highly interpretable

scholarly journals An Improved Approach for Text Sentiment Classification Based on a Deep Neural Network via a Sentiment Attention Mechanism

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li ◽  
Liu ◽  
Zhang ◽  
Liu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Attention Mechanism ◽  
Sentiment Classification ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Classification Tasks ◽  
Text Sentiment Analysis

Text sentiment analysis is an important but challenging task. Remarkable success has been achieved along with the wide application of deep learning methods, but deep learning methods dealing with text sentiment classification tasks cannot fully exploit sentiment linguistic knowledge, which hinders the development of text sentiment analysis. In this paper, we propose a sentiment-feature-enhanced deep neural network (SDNN) to address the problem by integrating sentiment linguistic knowledge into a deep neural network via a sentiment attention mechanism. Specifically, first we introduce a novel sentiment attention mechanism to help select the crucial sentiment-word-relevant context words by leveraging the sentiment lexicon in an attention mechanism, which bridges the gap between traditional sentiment linguistic knowledge and current popular deep learning methods. Second, we develop an improved deep neural network to extract sequential correlation information and text local features by combining bidirectional gated recurrent units with a convolutional neural network, which further enhances the ability of comprehensive text representation learning. With this design, the SDNN model can generate a powerful semantic representation of text to improve the performance of text sentiment classification tasks. Extensive experiments were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed SDNN model on two real-world datasets with a binary-sentiment-label and a multi-sentiment-label. The experimental results demonstrated that the SDNN achieved substantially better performance than the strong competitors for text sentiment classification tasks.

scholarly journals An Interactive Model of Target and Context for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hu Han ◽  
Guoli Liu ◽  
Jianwu Dang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Network Model ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Sentiment Classification ◽  
Target Information ◽  
Context Modelling ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Better Than

Aspect-level sentiment classification aims to identify the sentiment polarity of a review expressed toward a target. In recent years, neural network-based methods have achieved success in aspect-level sentiment classification, and these methods fall into two types: the first takes the target information into account for context modelling, and the second models the context without considering the target information. It is concluded that the former is better than the latter. However, most of the target-related models just focus on the impact of the target on context modelling, while ignoring the role of context in target modelling. In this study, we introduce an interactive neural network model named LT-T-TR, which divided a review into three parts: the left context with target phrase, the target phrase, and the right context with target phrase. And the interaction between the left/right context and the target phrase is utilized by an attention mechanism to learn the representations of the left/right context and the target phrase separately. As a result, the most important words in the left/right context or in the target phrase are captured, and the results on laptop and restaurant datasets demonstrate that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals Tourism Review Sentiment Classification Using a Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network with an Attention Mechanism and Topic-Enriched Word Vectors

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin Li ◽  
Shaobo Li ◽  
Jie Hu ◽  
Sen Zhang ◽  
Jianjun Hu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Attention Mechanism ◽  
Sentiment Classification ◽  
Vector Representation ◽  
Gated Recurrent Unit

Sentiment analysis of online tourist reviews is playing an increasingly important role in tourism. Accurately capturing the attitudes of tourists regarding different aspects of the scenic sites or the overall polarity of their online reviews is key to tourism analysis and application. However, the performances of current document sentiment analysis methods are not satisfactory as they either neglect the topics of the document or do not consider that not all words contribute equally to the meaning of the text. In this work, we propose a bidirectional gated recurrent unit neural network model (BiGRULA) for sentiment analysis by combining a topic model (lda2vec) and an attention mechanism. Lda2vec is used to discover all the main topics of review corpus, which are then used to enrich the word vector representation of words with context. The attention mechanism is used to learn to attribute different weights of the words to the overall meaning of the text. Experiments over 20 NewsGroup and IMDB datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our model. Furthermore, we applied our model to hotel review data analysis, which allows us to get more coherent topics from these reviews and achieve good performance in sentiment classification.

Improving Sentiment Analysis using Hybrid Deep Learning Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avinash Chandra Pandey ◽  
Dharmveer Singh Rajpoot
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Extraction Process ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Sentiment Classification ◽  
Deep Learning Model

Background: Sentiment analysis is a contextual mining of text which determines viewpoint of users with respect to some sentimental topics commonly present at social networking websites. Twitter is one of the social sites where people express their opinion about any topic in the form of tweets. These tweets can be examined using various sentiment classification methods to find the opinion of users. Traditional sentiment analysis methods use manually extracted features for opinion classification. The manual feature extraction process is a complicated task since it requires predefined sentiment lexicons. On the other hand, deep learning methods automatically extract relevant features from data hence; they provide better performance and richer representation competency than the traditional methods. Objective: The main aim of this paper is to enhance the sentiment classification accuracy and to reduce the computational cost. Method: To achieve the objective, a hybrid deep learning model, based on convolution neural network and bi-directional long-short term memory neural network has been introduced. Results: The proposed sentiment classification method achieves the highest accuracy for the most of the datasets. Further, from the statistical analysis efficacy of the proposed method has been validated. Conclusion: Sentiment classification accuracy can be improved by creating veracious hybrid models. Moreover, performance can also be enhanced by tuning the hyper parameters of deep leaning models.

scholarly journals Enhancing the performance of cancer text classification model based on cancer hallmarks

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
Noha Ali ◽  
Ahmed H. AbuEl-Atta ◽  
Hala H. Zayed
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Text Classification ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Biomedical Text ◽  
Cancer Hallmarks ◽  
Embedding Technique ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Biomedical Text Classification

<span id="docs-internal-guid-cb130a3a-7fff-3e11-ae3d-ad2310e265f8"><span>Deep learning (DL) algorithms achieved state-of-the-art performance in computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing (NLP). In this paper, we enhance the convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm to classify cancer articles according to cancer hallmarks. The model implements a recent word embedding technique in the embedding layer. This technique uses the concept of distributed phrase representation and multi-word phrases embedding. The proposed model enhances the performance of the existing model used for biomedical text classification. The result of the proposed model overcomes the previous model by achieving an F-score equal to 83.87% using an unsupervised technique that trained on PubMed abstracts called PMC vectors (PMCVec) embedding. Also, we made another experiment on the same dataset using the recurrent neural network (RNN) algorithm with two different word embeddings Google news and PMCVec which achieving F-score equal to 74.9% and 76.26%, respectively.</span></span>

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