TopicThunder at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Sentiment Classification Using a Convolutional Neural Network with Distant Supervision

Simon Müller, Tobias Huonder, Jan Deriu, Mark Cieliebak


Abstract
In this paper, we propose a classifier for predicting topic-specific sentiments of English Twitter messages. Our method is based on a 2-layer CNN.With a distant supervised phase we leverage a large amount of weakly-labelled training data. Our system was evaluated on the data provided by the SemEval-2017 competition in the Topic-Based Message Polarity Classification subtask, where it ranked 4th place.
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S17-2129
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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766–770
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https://aclanthology.org/S17-2129
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-2129
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Simon Müller, Tobias Huonder, Jan Deriu, and Mark Cieliebak. 2017. TopicThunder at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Sentiment Classification Using a Convolutional Neural Network with Distant Supervision. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 766–770, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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TopicThunder at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Sentiment Classification Using a Convolutional Neural Network with Distant Supervision (Müller et al., SemEval 2017)
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