Large-Scale Categorization of Japanese Product Titles Using Neural Attention Models

Yandi Xia, Aaron Levine, Pradipto Das, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Keiji Shinzato, Ankur Datta


Abstract
We propose a variant of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models, the Attention CNN (ACNN); for large-scale categorization of millions of Japanese items into thirty-five product categories. Compared to a state-of-the-art Gradient Boosted Tree (GBT) classifier, the proposed model reduces training time from three weeks to three days while maintaining more than 96% accuracy. Additionally, our proposed model characterizes products by imputing attentive focus on word tokens in a language agnostic way. The attention words have been observed to be semantically highly correlated with the predicted categories and give us a choice of automatic feature extraction for downstream processing.
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E17-2105
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
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April
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2017
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Valencia, Spain
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Mirella Lapata, Phil Blunsom, Alexander Koller
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663–668
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Yandi Xia, Aaron Levine, Pradipto Das, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Keiji Shinzato, and Ankur Datta. 2017. Large-Scale Categorization of Japanese Product Titles Using Neural Attention Models. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers, pages 663–668, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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