Deep Short Text Classification with Knowledge Powered Attention

Authors

  • Jindong Chen Fudan University
  • Yizhou Hu Fudan University
  • Jingping Liu Fudan University
  • Yanghua Xiao Fudan University
  • Haiyun Jiang Fudan University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016252

Abstract

Short text classification is one of important tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Unlike paragraphs or documents, short texts are more ambiguous since they have not enough contextual information, which poses a great challenge for classification. In this paper, we retrieve knowledge from external knowledge source to enhance the semantic representation of short texts. We take conceptual information as a kind of knowledge and incorporate it into deep neural networks. For the purpose of measuring the importance of knowledge, we introduce attention mechanisms and propose deep Short Text Classification with Knowledge powered Attention (STCKA). We utilize Concept towards Short Text (CST) attention and Concept towards Concept Set (C-CS) attention to acquire the weight of concepts from two aspects. And we classify a short text with the help of conceptual information. Unlike traditional approaches, our model acts like a human being who has intrinsic ability to make decisions based on observation (i.e., training data for machines) and pays more attention to important knowledge. We also conduct extensive experiments on four public datasets for different tasks. The experimental results and case studies show that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods, justifying the effectiveness of knowledge powered attention.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Chen, J., Hu, Y., Liu, J., Xiao, Y., & Jiang, H. (2019). Deep Short Text Classification with Knowledge Powered Attention. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 6252-6259. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016252

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AAAI Technical Track: Natural Language Processing