A Transfer Learning Based Boosting Model for Emotion Analysis

Ruolan Yong, Chengyu Wang, Xiaofeng He

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Abstract

Emotion Analysis determines the emotion of a text. Supervised Machine learning algorithms are effective for Emotion Analysis, but they need a lot of labelled data. It is a labor-intensive process and often needs instructions of experts to annotate data. In this paper, we propose a transfer learning approach for emotion analysis based on Adaboost(EATAdaBoost) by adapting the knowledge learned from labelled source data to the target domain which has none or few labelled data. We try to establish connections between source instances and target domain. Word2vec semantic similarities between source instances and common non-domain-specific emotional words which occur frequently in both domains are used as a bridge. If the similarity is bigger than a threshold, we think the source instance is useful for learning target task. In addition, we conduct extensive experiments and the results show that our algorithm is superior to baselines.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge, ICBK 2017
EditorsXindong Wu, Xindong Wu, Tamer Ozsu, Jim Hendler, Ruqian Lu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages264-269
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538631195
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Aug 2017
Event8th IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge, ICBK 2017 - Hefei, China
Duration: 9 Aug 201710 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge, ICBK 2017

Conference

Conference8th IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge, ICBK 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHefei
Period9/08/1710/08/17

Keywords

  • AdaBoost
  • Emotion Analysis
  • Transfer Learning

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