Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Topic memory networks for short text classification

  • Jichuan Zeng
  • , Jing Li
  • , Yan Song
  • , Cuiyun Gao
  • , Michael R. Lyu
  • , Irwin King
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Tencent

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Abstract

Many classification models work poorly on short texts due to data sparsity. To address this issue, we propose topic memory networks for short text classification with a novel topic memory mechanism to encode latent topic representations indicative of class labels. Different from most prior work that focuses on extending features with external knowledge or pre-trained topics, our model jointly explores topic inference and text classification with memory networks in an end-to-end manner. Experimental results on four benchmark datasets show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art models on short text classification, meanwhile generates coherent topics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018
EditorsEllen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun'ichi Tsujii
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Pages3120-3131
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781948087841
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018 - Brussels, Belgium
Duration: 31 Oct 20184 Nov 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018

Conference

Conference2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityBrussels
Period31/10/184/11/18

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Topic memory networks for short text classification'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this