Improving Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis via Conditional Language Adversarial Nets

Hemanth Kandula, Bonan Min


Abstract
Sentiment analysis has come a long way for high-resource languages due to the availability of large annotated corpora. However, it still suffers from lack of training data for low-resource languages. To tackle this problem, we propose Conditional Language Adversarial Network (CLAN), an end-to-end neural architecture for cross-lingual sentiment analysis without cross-lingual supervision. CLAN differs from prior work in that it allows the adversarial training to be conditioned on both learned features and the sentiment prediction, to increase discriminativity for learned representation in the cross-lingual setting. Experimental results demonstrate that CLAN outperforms previous methods on the multilingual multi-domain Amazon review dataset. Our source code is released at https://github.com/hemanthkandula/clan.
Anthology ID:
2021.sigtyp-1.4
Volume:
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP
Month:
June
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Ekaterina Vylomova, Elizabeth Salesky, Sabrina Mielke, Gabriella Lapesa, Ritesh Kumar, Harald Hammarström, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen, Roi Reichart, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Ryan Cotterell
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SIGTYP
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SIGTYP
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
32–37
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigtyp-1.4
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.sigtyp-1.4
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Cite (ACL):
Hemanth Kandula and Bonan Min. 2021. Improving Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis via Conditional Language Adversarial Nets. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP, pages 32–37, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Improving Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis via Conditional Language Adversarial Nets (Kandula & Min, SIGTYP 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigtyp-1.4.pdf
Code
 hemanthkandula/clan