A Helping Hand: Transfer Learning for Deep Sentiment Analysis

Xin Dong, Gerard de Melo


Abstract
Deep convolutional neural networks excel at sentiment polarity classification, but tend to require substantial amounts of training data, which moreover differs quite significantly between domains. In this work, we present an approach to feed generic cues into the training process of such networks, leading to better generalization abilities given limited training data. We propose to induce sentiment embeddings via supervision on extrinsic data, which are then fed into the model via a dedicated memory-based component. We observe significant gains in effectiveness on a range of different datasets in seven different languages.
Anthology ID:
P18-1235
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
2524–2534
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-1235
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-1235
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Cite (ACL):
Xin Dong and Gerard de Melo. 2018. A Helping Hand: Transfer Learning for Deep Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2524–2534, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
A Helping Hand: Transfer Learning for Deep Sentiment Analysis (Dong & de Melo, ACL 2018)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-1235.pdf
Data
Multi-Domain SentimentSSTSST-2