PaperNotes丨Improving Review Representations with User Attention and Product Attention for Sentiment

Improving Review Representations with User Attention and Product Attention for Sentiment Classification

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0.Information

Year : 2018
Authors : Zhen Wu, Xin-Yu Dai∗, Cunyan Yin, Shujian Huang, Jiajun Chen,
Conference : AAAI-18

Wu, Zhen, et al. “Improving review representations with user attention and product attention for sentiment classification.” Thirty-second AAAI conference on artificial intelligence. 2018.

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1.Summary

This paper propose a new framework called HUAPA(Hierarchical User Attention and Product Attention neural network) which encode user information and product information seperately in document-level review sentiment classification. It performs much better on the Experiment-Dataset compared with baseline.

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2.Research Objective(s)

Propose a novel framework to encode user and product infomation in document-level review sentiment classification.

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3.Background / Problem Statement

• For different users, same word might express different emotional intensity.
• It is un- reasonable to encode user and product information together into one representation.

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4.Method(s)

Model

HUAPA (Hierarchical User Attention and Product Attention neural network)

Basic

1. Long Short-Term Memory
2. Attention Mechanism
3. Document-level Sentiment Classification
4. NSC-UPA¹

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5.Evaluation

Dataset

IMDB and Y elp Dataset Challenge in 2013 and 2014

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Compared with baseline

Measure:

• Accuracy
• RMSE
  

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Visualization

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6.Conclusion

1. In this paper, we propose a novel framework incorporating user and product information for sentiment classification.
2. the visualizations of attention also show our model can capture user information and product information.

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7.Notes

1. They encode user information and product information seperately.
2. They did not use any regularization or dropout.

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8.Code

https://github.com/wuzhen247/HUAPA

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1. Chen, Huimin, et al. “Neural sentiment classification with user and product attention.” Proceedings of the 2016 conference on empirical methods in natural language processing. 2016. ↩︎