Masahiro Yamamoto


2019

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m_y at SemEval-2019 Task 9: Exploring BERT for Suggestion Mining
Masahiro Yamamoto | Toshiyuki Sekiya
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

This paper presents our system to the SemEval-2019 Task 9, Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums. The goal of this task is to extract suggestions such as the expressions of tips, advice, and recommendations. We explore Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) focusing on target domain pre-training in Subtask A which provides training and test datasets in the same domain. In Subtask B, the cross domain suggestion mining task, we apply the idea of distant supervision. Our system obtained the third place in Subtask A and the fifth place in Subtask B, which demonstrates its efficacy of our approaches.