A Soft Label Strategy for Target-Level Sentiment Classification

Da Yin, Xiao Liu, Xiuyu Wu, Baobao Chang


Abstract
In this paper, we propose a soft label approach to target-level sentiment classification task, in which a history-based soft labeling model is proposed to measure the possibility of a context word as an opinion word. We also apply a convolution layer to extract local active features, and introduce positional weights to take relative distance information into consideration. In addition, we obtain more informative target representation by training with context tokens together to make deeper interaction between target and context tokens. We conduct experiments on SemEval 2014 datasets and the experimental results show that our approach significantly outperforms previous models and gives state-of-the-art results on these datasets.
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W19-1302
Volume:
Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
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June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, USA
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Alexandra Balahur, Roman Klinger, Veronique Hoste, Carlo Strapparava, Orphee De Clercq
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WASSA
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6–15
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-1302
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-1302
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Da Yin, Xiao Liu, Xiuyu Wu, and Baobao Chang. 2019. A Soft Label Strategy for Target-Level Sentiment Classification. In Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, pages 6–15, Minneapolis, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Soft Label Strategy for Target-Level Sentiment Classification (Yin et al., WASSA 2019)
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