Learning with Noisy Labels for Sentence-level Sentiment Classification

Hao Wang, Bing Liu, Chaozhuo Li, Yan Yang, Tianrui Li


Abstract
Deep neural networks (DNNs) can fit (or even over-fit) the training data very well. If a DNN model is trained using data with noisy labels and tested on data with clean labels, the model may perform poorly. This paper studies the problem of learning with noisy labels for sentence-level sentiment classification. We propose a novel DNN model called NetAb (as shorthand for convolutional neural Networks with Ab-networks) to handle noisy labels during training. NetAb consists of two convolutional neural networks, one with a noise transition layer for dealing with the input noisy labels and the other for predicting ‘clean’ labels. We train the two networks using their respective loss functions in a mutual reinforcement manner. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model.
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D19-1655
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
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EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6286–6292
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-1655
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-1655
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Hao Wang, Bing Liu, Chaozhuo Li, Yan Yang, and Tianrui Li. 2019. Learning with Noisy Labels for Sentence-level Sentiment Classification. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 6286–6292, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Learning with Noisy Labels for Sentence-level Sentiment Classification (Wang et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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