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Sentiment analysis provides a useful overview of customer review contents. Many review websites allow a user to enter a summary in addition to a full review. Intuitively, summary information may give additional benefit for review sentiment analysis. In this paper, we conduct a study to exploit methods for better use of summary information. We start by finding out that the sentimental signal distribution of a review and that of its corresponding summary are in fact complementary to each other. We thus explore various architectures to better guide the interactions between the two and propose a hierarchically-refined review-centric attention model. Empirical results show that our review-centric model can make better use of user-written summaries for review sentiment analysis, and is also more effective compared to existing methods when the user summary is replaced with summary generated by an automatic summarization system.

COLING 2020

Making the Best Use of Review Summary for Sentiment Analysis

interpretability

sentiment analysis

text classification

## Dr. Nishikant (Nish) Sonwalkar: Academician, Scientist, Musician

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Dr. Sonwalkar is regarded as a leading expert in the application of computers in education. He has extensive research and development experience in hypermedia authoring, mobile learning, adaptive learning, and brain-based synaptic learning, advanced scientific visualization, database management systems, and computer simulation.

After receiving doctoral degree from MIT in the area of Molecular Dynamics of Nano-interfaces, he joined MIT as faculty in Mechanical Engineering, but his passion for technology enabled education led him become the founding director of Hypermedia Teaching Facility (Hypermedia Lab) at MIT and later he was appointed as the Principal Educational Architect of MIT.

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NISH 2021

poster

stages 

COLING, the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, is one of the premier conferences for natural language processing and computational linguistics. Often grouped within the field of artificial intelligence, but actually pre-dating the development of artificial intelligence, advances in computational linguistics and natural language processing are now some of the major drivers behind the use of artificial intelligence for commercial and social applications – for example, on-line search, machine translation and with voice-assisted conversational devices.

First established in 1965, the biennial COLING conference is held in diverse parts of the globe and attracts participants from both top-ranked research centers and emerging countries. Today, the most important developments in our field are taking place not only in universities and academic research institutes, but also in industrial research departments and in technological startups. COLING conferences provide opportunities for all these communities to showcase their exciting developments.

COLING, the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, is one of the premier conferences for natural language processing and computational linguistics. Often grouped within the field of artificial intelligence, but actually pre-dating the development of artificial intelligence, advances in computational linguistics and natural language processing are now some of the major drivers behind the use of artificial intelligence for commercial and social applications – for example, on-line search, machine translation and with voice-assisted conversational devices.

Event extraction (EE) plays an important role in real-life applications, such as information retrieval and news summarization. It aims to discover events with triggers and their corresponding arguments. Typically, EE contains several subtasks: trigger identification, trigger classification, event argument identification, and argument role classification. Most existing work follows a pipelined manner or uses a joint structure but is pipelined in essence. As a result, these efforts fail to utilize information interactions among event triggers, event arguments, and argument roles, which causes information redundancy. In this paper, we propose to exploit the role information of the arguments in an event and devise a Hierarchical Policy Network (HPNet) to perform joint EE. The whole EE process is fulfilled through a two-level hierarchical structure consisting of two policy networks for event detection and argument detection. The deep information interactions among the subtasks are realized, and it is more natural to deal with multiple events issue. 


Joint Event Extraction with Hierarchical Policy Network

We present a multi-level alignment pretraining method in a unified architecture for multi-lingual semantic parsing. In this architecture, we use an adversarial training method to align the space of different languages and use sentence level and word level parallel corpus as supervision information to align the semantic of different languages. Finally, we jointly train the multi-level alignment and semantic parsing tasks. We conduct experiments on a publicly avail-able multi-lingual semantic parsing dataset ATIS and a newly constructed dataset. Experimental results show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both datasets.


Multi-level Alignment Pretraining for Multi-lingual Semantic Parsing

Open-domain reading comprehension is a challenging issue in terms of natural language understanding. In this paper, we proposes a miscellaneous-context-based
method to convert a sentence into a knowledge embedding in the form of a directed graph. Based on the idea of conceptual graphs, this graph representation method
abbreviated as AGG-CG can (1) accommodate the slot-filling challenges in typical question answering, (2) access to the sentence-level graph structure in order to explicitly capture the neighbouring connections of reference concept nodes, and (3) project an edge of a sentence-level graph to the space of semantic relevance with respect to the corresponding concept nodes, by cooperating with the semantics-measured module. In conclusion, our approach is the first towards the interpretable process of learning human-comprehensible graphical representations with the experimental evidence.

Automated Graph Generation at Sentence Level for Reading Comprehension Based on Conceptual Graphs

• Companies are racing to leverage digital technologies (AI, IoT,
Cloud, among others)
•Majority of companies report that their strategies did not deliver
anticipated business results
• We used NLP to understand the different clusters of digital
strategy patterns of Fortune 500 companies
• Results showed four approaches to digital strategy
• The results provided a baseline to improve our understanding of
digital strategy approaches

Deep Learning Framework for Measuring the Digital Strategy of Companies from Earnings Calls

Sparsity is regarded as a desirable property of representations, especially in terms of explanation. However, its usage has been limited due to the gap with dense representations. Most NLP re- search progresses in recent years are based on dense representations. Thus the desirable property of sparsity cannot be leveraged. Inspired by Fourier Transformation, in this paper, we propose a novel Semantic Transformation method to bridge the dense and sparse spaces, which can facilitate the NLP research to shift from dense space to sparse space or to jointly use both spaces. Experiments using classification tasks and natural language inference task show that the proposed Semantic Transformation is effective.


Transformation of Dense and Sparse Text Representations

Multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) for tweets has received increasing attention recently. Most of the multimodal methods used attention mechanisms to capture the text-related visual information. However, unrelated or weakly related text-image pairs account for a large proportion in tweets. Visual clues unrelated to the text would incur uncertain or even negative effects for multimodal model learning. In this paper, we propose a novel pre-trained multimodal model based on Relationship Inferring and Visual Attention (RIVA) for tweets. The RIVA model controls the attention-based visual clues with a gate regarding the role of image to the semantics of text. We use a teacher-student semi-supervised paradigm to leverage a large unlabeled multimodal tweet corpus with a labeled data set for text-image relation classification. In the multimodal NER task, the experimental results show the significance of text-related visual features for the visual-linguistic model and our approach achieves SOTA performance on the MNER datasets.

RIVA: A Pre-trained Tweet Multimodal Model Based on Text-image Relationship for Multimodal NER

Understanding neural models is a major topic of interest in the deep learning community. In this paper, we propose to interpret a general neural model comparatively. Specifically, we study the sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) model in the contexts of two mainstream NLP tasks–machine translation and dialogue response generation–as they both use the Seq2Seq model. We investigate how the two tasks are different and how their task difference results in major differences in the behaviors of the resulting translation and dialogue generation systems. This study allows us to make several interesting observations and gain valuable insights, which can be used to help develop better translation and dialogue generation models. To our knowledge, no such comparative study has been done so far.

Translation vs. Dialogue: A Comparative Analysis of Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling


Annotating data is trivial in real-world situations. To solve this problem, Active Learning has been well-studied to decrease the needed amount of the annotating data and successfully applied to NLU on some pipeline model. However, no research has been done on investigating how the relation information between intents and slots can improve the efficiency of AL algorithms. Therefore, we propose a pool-based multitask active learning framework for NLU and an efficient computation for the entropy of a joint model. Experiment results show that our framework is efficient and has the potential for industrial use.

A Multitask Active Learning Framework for Natural Language Understanding

Visual storytelling aims to generate a narrative paragraph from a sequence of images automatically. Existing approaches construct text description independently for each image and roughly concatenate them as a story, which leads to the problem of generating semantically incoherent content. In this paper, we propose a new way for visual storytelling by introducing a topic description task to detect the global semantic context of an image stream. A story is then constructed with the guidance of the topic description. In order to combine the two generation tasks, we propose a multi-agent communication framework that regards the topic description generator and the story generator as two agents and learn them simultaneously via iterative updating mechanism. We validate our approach on VIST dataset, where quantitative results, ablations, and human evaluation demonstrate our method's good ability in generating stories with higher quality compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Keep it Consistent: Topic-Aware Storytelling from an Image Stream via Iterative Multi-agent Communication

A large body of research on gender-linked language has established foundations regarding cross-gender differences in lexical, emotional, and topical preferences, along with their sociological underpinnings. We compile a novel, large and diverse corpus of spontaneous linguistic productions annotated with speakers’ gender, and perform a first large-scale empirical study of distinctions in the usage of figurative language between male and female authors. Our analyses suggest that (1) idiomatic choices reflect gender-specific lexical and semantic preferences in general language, (2) men’s and women’s idiomatic usages express higher emotion than their literal language, with detectable, albeit more subtle, differences between male and female authors along the dimension of dominance compared to similar distinctions in their literal utterances, and (3) contextual analysis of idiomatic expressions reveals considerable differences, reflecting subtle divergences in usage environments, shaped by cross-gender communication styles and semantic biases.


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