Advanced Transfer Learning Approach for Improving Spanish Sentiment Analysis

• Autores: Palomino D., Ochoa-Luna J.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación
• Repositorio: CONCYTEC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.concytec.gob.pe:20.500.12390/2725
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/2725; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33749-0_10
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Transfer learning; Language Model; Natural Language Processing; Sentiment analysis; http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.02.04

In the last years, innovative techniques like Transfer Learning have impacted strongly in Natural Language Processing, increasing massively the state-of-the-art in several challenging tasks. In particular, the Universal Language Model Fine-Tuning (ULMFiT) algorithm has proven to have an impressive performance on several English text classification tasks. In this paper, we aim at developing an algorithm for Spanish Sentiment Analysis of short texts that is comparable to the state-of-the-art. In order to do so, we have adapted the ULMFiT algorithm to this setting. Experimental results on benchmark datasets (InterTASS 2017 and InterTASS 2018) show how this simple transfer learning approach performs well when compared to fancy deep learning techniques. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.