to detect the subjective expressions in n a text (e.g. “hate” or “like”) and to characterize their n intensity (e.g. “strong” or “weak”) n sentiment (e.g. “negative” or “positive”) as well as to identify n the opinion holder: the entity expressing the opinion n the target, or topic of the opinion: what the opinion is about 2
expressions [Wiebe et al., 2005] DSEs (Direct Subjective Expressions) consist of explicit mentions of private states or speech events expressing private states ESEs (Expressive Subjective Expressions) consist of expressions that indicate sentiment, emotion, etc., without explicitly conveying them 3
often been tackled as a sequence labeling problem in previous work. n B: the beginning of an opinion-related expression n I: tokens inside the opinion-related expression n O: tokens outside any opinion-related class 5
Random Field) variants of CRF approaches have been successfully applied to opinion expression extraction using this token-based view. semiCRF (state-of-the-art) relaxes the Markovian assumption inherent to CRFs and operates at the phrase level rather then the token level, allowing the incorporation of phrase-level features. But those CRFs hinges critically on access to an appropriate feature set, typically based on constituent, dependency parse trees, manually crafted opinion lexicons, named entity tagger and other preprocessing 6
Neural Network) n latent features are modeled as distributed dense vectors of hidden layers n can operate on sequential data of variable length n it can also be applied as a sequence labeler bidirectional RNN n incorporate information from preceding as well as following tokens n allowing a lower dimensional dense input representation n more compact networks 7
Network n lower levels capture short term interactions among words n higher layers reflect interpretations aggregate over longer spans n such hierarchies might better model the multi-scale language effects Deep Bidirectional RNN (the proposed method) motivated by the recent success of deep architectures in general and deep recurrent networks in particular 8
Examples 3. Labeling 4. Methods Methodology 1. Recurrent Neural Network 2. Bidirectionality 3. Deep in Space 9 Experiments 1. Data and Metrics 2. Baselines 3. Tuning and Training 4. Results and Discussion Conclusion
with this model: the Elman-style unidirectional RNN lack the representational power to model this task. For example: n I did not accept his suggestion. n I did not go to the rodeo. The first example has a DSE phrase “did not accept”. However, any such RNN will assign the same labels for the word “did” and “not” in both sentences, since the preceding sequences (past) are the same. 11
et al., 1997] ˠ : forward step (representations of the past) ˡ : backward step (representations of the future) h0 → = hT+1 ← = 0 Note: the forward and backward parts of the network are independent of each other until the output layer when they are combined. 12
deep RNN: constructed by stacking Elman-type RNNs on top of each other when i > 1 Intuitively, every layer of the deep RNN treats the memory sequence of the previous layer as the input sequence, and computes its own memory representation. 13
MPQA 1.2 corpus [Wiebe et al., 2005] n 535 news articles, 11,111 sentences n manually annotated w/ both DSEs and ESEs at phrase level n 135 development set n 10-fold cross validation over remaining 400 documents Evaluation Metrics Binary Overlap count every overlapping match between a predicted and true expression as correct Proportional Overlap impart a partial correctness, proportional to the overlapping amount, to each match All statistical comparisons are done using a two-sided paired t-test with a confidence level of Ћ = .05 15
and semiCRF n Features: words, POS tag, membership in a manually constructed opinion lexicon Word Vectors (+VEC) n versions of the baselines that have access to pre-trained word vectors n CRF+VEC: as continuous features per every token n semiCRF+VEC: simply take the mean of every word vector for a phrase-level vector representation n 300-dimensinal n trained on part of Google News Dataset (ʙ100B words) 16
Dropout: randomly set entries of hidden representations to 0 with a probability called dropout rate Network Training n use SGD with fixed learning rate .005 n update weights after minibatches of 80 sentences n run 200 epochs n initialized from small random uniform noise 17
vs. Unidirectional Shallow biRNN vs. uniRNN n each network has the same number of total parameters n 65 hidden units for the unidirectional network n 36 hidden units for the bidirectional network DSEs n Proportional Overlap: 63.83 vs. 60.35 n Binary Overlap: 69.31 vs. 68.31 ESEs n Proportional Overlap: 54.22 vs. 51.51 n Binary Overlap: 65.44 vs. 63.65 Thus, we will not include comparisons to the unidirectional RNNs in the remaining experiments. 18
Adding Depth Bold: Best result Asterisk: statistically indis- tinguishable performance w/ respect to the best n for both DSE and ESE, 3-layer RNN provide the best results n 2, 3 and 4-layer RNNs show equally good performance for certain sizes n adding additional layers degrades performance
deep recurrent neural networks to the task of sentence-level opinion expression. p deep RNNs outperformed shallow RNNs. p deep RNNs outperformed pervious (semi)CRF baselines. p One potential future direction is to explore the effects of pre-training. 21
Examples 3. Labeling 4. Methods Methodology 1. Recurrent Neural Network 2. Bidirectionality 3. Deep in Space 22 Experiments 1. Data and Metrics 2. Baselines 3. Tuning and Training 4. Results and Discussion Conclusion