SwissCheese: Sentiment Classification Using an Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks with Distant Supervision


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2016-06

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In this paper, we propose a classifier for predicting message-level sentiments of English micro-blog messages from Twitter. Our method builds upon the convolutional sentence embedding approach proposed by (Severyn and Moschitti, 2015a; Severyn and Moschitti, 2015b). We leverage large amounts of data with distant supervision to train an ensemble of 2-layer convolutional neural networks whose predictions are combined using a random forest classifier. Our approach was evaluated on the datasets of the SemEval-2016 competition (Task 4) outperforming all otherapproaches for the Message Polarity Classification task.

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Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016)

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1124 - 1128

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Association for Computer Linguistics

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10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2016)

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09462 - Hofmann, Thomas / Hofmann, Thomas check_circle

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