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An attention-gated convolutional neural network for sentence classification

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INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 1091-1107

Publisher

IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/IDA-184311

Keywords

Sentence classification; convolutional neural network; NLReLU activation function; attention-gated convolutional neural network

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  1. Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [61521003]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [61601513]

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The classification of sentences is very challenging, since sentences contain the limited contextual information. In this paper, we proposed an Attention-Gated Convolutional Neural Network (AGCNN) for sentence classification, which generates attention weights from the feature's context windows of different sizes by using specialized convolution encoders. It makes full use of limited contextual information to extract and enhance the influence of important features in predicting the sentence's category. Experimental results demonstrated that our model can achieve up to 3.1% higher accuracy than standard CNN models, and gain competitive results over the baselines on four out of the six tasks. Besides, we designed an activation function, namely, Natural Logarithm rescaled Rectified Linear Unit (NLReLU). Experiments showed that NLReLU can outperform ReLU and is comparable to other well-known activation functions on AGCNN.

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