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RAST: A Reward Augmented Model for Fine-Grained Sentiment Transfer

  • Xiaoxuan Hu
  • , Hengtong Zhang
  • , Wayne Xin Zhao*
  • , Yaliang Li
  • , Jing Gao
  • , Ji Rong Wen
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Information
  • Beijing Key Laboratory of Big Data Management and Analysis Methods
  • Purdue University
  • SUNY Buffalo
  • Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence
  • Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel model RAST (Reward Augmented Sentiment Transfer) for fine-grained sentiment transfer. Existing methods usually suffer from two major drawbacks, i.e., blurre d sentiment distinction and unsatisfactory content preservation. Considering the above issues, we design two kinds of rewards to better control sentiment and content. Specially, we develop a pairwise comparative discriminator that enforces to generate sentences with clear distinctions for different sentiment intensities. Moreover, we utilize an effective sampling strategy to obtain pseudo-parallel sentences with minor changes on the input sentence to enhance content preservation. Experiments on a benchmark dataset show that the proposed model outperforms several competitive approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatural Language Processing and Chinese Computing - 10th CCF International Conference, NLPCC 2021, Proceedings
EditorsLu Wang, Yansong Feng, Yu Hong, Ruifang He
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages196-209
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783030884796
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021 - Qingdao, China
Duration: 13 Oct 202117 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13028 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQingdao
Period13/10/2117/10/21

Keywords

  • Fine-grained sentiment transfer
  • Reward augmented training

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