Diversified Multiple Instance Learning for Document-Level Multi-Aspect Sentiment Classification

Yunjie Ji, Hao Liu, Bolei He, Xinyan Xiao, Hua Wu, Yanhua Yu


Abstract
Neural Document-level Multi-aspect Sentiment Classification (DMSC) usually requires a lot of manual aspect-level sentiment annotations, which is time-consuming and laborious. As document-level sentiment labeled data are widely available from online service, it is valuable to perform DMSC with such free document-level annotations. To this end, we propose a novel Diversified Multiple Instance Learning Network (D-MILN), which is able to achieve aspect-level sentiment classification with only document-level weak supervision. Specifically, we connect aspect-level and document-level sentiment by formulating this problem as multiple instance learning, providing a way to learn aspect-level classifier from the back propagation of document-level supervision. Two diversified regularizations are further introduced in order to avoid the overfitting on document-level signals during training. Diversified textual regularization encourages the classifier to select aspect-relevant snippets, and diversified sentimental regularization prevents the aspect-level sentiments from being overly consistent with document-level sentiment. Experimental results on TripAdvisor and BeerAdvocate datasets show that D-MILN remarkably outperforms recent weakly-supervised baselines, and is also comparable to the supervised method.
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2020.emnlp-main.570
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Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
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November
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2020
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Online
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Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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7012–7023
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.570
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10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.570
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Yunjie Ji, Hao Liu, Bolei He, Xinyan Xiao, Hua Wu, and Yanhua Yu. 2020. Diversified Multiple Instance Learning for Document-Level Multi-Aspect Sentiment Classification. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 7012–7023, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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