Sentiment analysis based on rhetorical structure theory:Learning deep neural networks from discourse trees
Kraus M, Feuerriegel S (2019)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2019
Journal
Book Volume: 118
Pages Range: 65-79
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2018.10.002
Abstract
Prominent applications of sentiment analysis are countless, covering areas such as marketing, customer service and communication. The conventional bag-of-words approach for measuring sentiment merely counts term frequencies; however, it neglects the position of the terms within the discourse. As a remedy, we develop a discourse-aware method that builds upon the discourse structure of documents. For this purpose, we utilize rhetorical structure theory to label (sub-)clauses according to their hierarchical relationships and then assign polarity scores to individual leaves. To learn from the resulting rhetorical structure, we propose a tensor-based, tree-structured deep neural network (named Discourse-LSTM) in order to process the complete discourse tree. The underlying tensors infer the salient passages of narrative materials. In addition, we suggest two algorithms for data augmentation (node reordering and artificial leaf insertion) that increase our training set and reduce overfitting. Our benchmarks demonstrate the superior performance of our approach. Moreover, our tensor structure reveals the salient text passages and thereby provides explanatory insights.
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APA:
Kraus, M., & Feuerriegel, S. (2019). Sentiment analysis based on rhetorical structure theory:Learning deep neural networks from discourse trees. Expert Systems With Applications, 118, 65-79. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.10.002
MLA:
Kraus, Mathias, and Stefan Feuerriegel. "Sentiment analysis based on rhetorical structure theory:Learning deep neural networks from discourse trees." Expert Systems With Applications 118 (2019): 65-79.
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