Cascading Multiway Attentions for Document-level Sentiment Classification

Document-level sentiment classification aims to assign the user reviews a sentiment polarity. Previous methods either just utilized the document content without consideration of user and product information, or did not comprehensively consider what roles the three kinds of information play in text modeling. In this paper, to reasonably use all the information, we present the idea that user, product and their combination can all influence the generation of attentions to words and sentences, when judging the sentiment of a document. With this idea, we propose a cascading multiway attention (CMA) model, where multiple ways of using user and product information are cascaded to influence the generation of attentions on the word and sentence layers. Then, sentences and documents are well modeled by multiple representation vectors, which provide rich information for sentiment classification. Experiments on IMDB and Yelp datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.

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Datasets


Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Benchmark
Sentiment Analysis User and product information CMA IMDB (Acc) 54.0 # 5
Yelp 2013 (Acc) 66.4 # 5
Yelp 2014 (Acc) 67.6 # 4

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