Clos
Neural induction of a lexicon for fast and interpretable stance classification.
Authors
Professor Nirmalie Wiratunga n.wiratunga@rgu.ac.uk
Professor
Contributors
Jorge Gracia
Editor
Francis Bond
Editor
John P. McCrae
Editor
Paul Buitelaar
Editor
Christian Chiarcos
Editor
Sebastian Hellmann
Editor
Abstract
Large-scale social media classification faces the following two challenges: algorithms can be hard to adapt to Web-scale data, and the predictions that they provide are difficult for humans to understand. Those two challenges are solved at the cost of some accuracy by lexicon-based classifiers, which offer a white-box approach to text mining by using a trivially interpretable additive model. However current techniques for lexicon-based classification limit themselves to using hand-crafted lexicons, which suffer from human bias and are difficult to extend, or automatically generated lexicons, which are induced using point-estimates of some predefined probabilistic measure on a corpus of interest. In this work we propose a new approach to learn robust lexicons, using the backpropagation algorithm to ensure generalization power without sacrificing model readability. We evaluate our approach on a stance detection task, on two different datasets, and find that our lexicon outperforms standard lexicon approaches.
Citation
CLOS, J. and WIRATUNGA, N. 2017. Neural induction of a lexicon for fast and interpretable stance classification. In Gracia, J., Bond, F., McCrae, J.P., Buitelaar, P., Chiarcos, C. and Hellmann, S. (eds.) Language, data and knowledge: proceedings of the 1st International conference on language, data and knowledge (LDK 2017), 19-20 June 2017, Galway, Ireland. Lecture notes in computer science, 10318. Cham: Springer [online], pages 181-193. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59888-8_16
Conference Name | 1st International conference on language, data and knowledge (LDK 2017) |
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Conference Location | Galway, Ireland |
Start Date | Jun 19, 2017 |
End Date | Jun 20, 2017 |
Acceptance Date | Apr 4, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | May 27, 2017 |
Publication Date | May 27, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Jun 4, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 4, 2018 |
Print ISSN | 0302-9743 |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 181-193 |
Series Title | Lecture notes in computer science |
Series Number | 10318 |
Series ISSN | 0302-9743 |
ISBN | 9783319598871 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59888-8_16 |
Keywords | Decision function; Aggregation function; Computational graph; Sentiment lexicon; Pointwise mutual information |
Public URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2940 |
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