Pretraining Sentiment Classifiers with Unlabeled Dialog Data

Toru Shimizu, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Hayato Kobayashi


Abstract
The huge cost of creating labeled training data is a common problem for supervised learning tasks such as sentiment classification. Recent studies showed that pretraining with unlabeled data via a language model can improve the performance of classification models. In this paper, we take the concept a step further by using a conditional language model, instead of a language model. Specifically, we address a sentiment classification task for a tweet analysis service as a case study and propose a pretraining strategy with unlabeled dialog data (tweet-reply pairs) via an encoder-decoder model. Experimental results show that our strategy can improve the performance of sentiment classifiers and outperform several state-of-the-art strategies including language model pretraining.
Anthology ID:
P18-2121
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
764–770
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-2121
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-2121
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Toru Shimizu, Nobuyuki Shimizu, and Hayato Kobayashi. 2018. Pretraining Sentiment Classifiers with Unlabeled Dialog Data. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 764–770, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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