An Investigation of Transfer Learning-Based Sentiment Analysis in Japanese

Enkhbold Bataa, Joshua Wu


Abstract
Text classification approaches have usually required task-specific model architectures and huge labeled datasets. Recently, thanks to the rise of text-based transfer learning techniques, it is possible to pre-train a language model in an unsupervised manner and leverage them to perform effective on downstream tasks. In this work we focus on Japanese and show the potential use of transfer learning techniques in text classification. Specifically, we perform binary and multi-class sentiment classification on the Rakuten product review and Yahoo movie review datasets. We show that transfer learning-based approaches perform better than task-specific models trained on 3 times as much data. Furthermore, these approaches perform just as well for language modeling pre-trained on only 1/30 of the data. We release our pre-trained models and code as open source.
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P19-1458
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4652–4657
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-1458
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1458
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Enkhbold Bataa and Joshua Wu. 2019. An Investigation of Transfer Learning-Based Sentiment Analysis in Japanese. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4652–4657, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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