Lexical Data Augmentation for Text Classification in Deep Learning

Rong Xiang; Emmanuele Chersoni; Yunfei Long; Qin Lu; Chu Ren Huang

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47358-7_53

Lexical Data Augmentation for Text Classification in Deep Learning

Rong Xiang, Emmanuele Chersoni, Yunfei Long, Qin Lu, Chu Ren Huang

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

This paper presents our work on using part-of-speech focused lexical substitution for data augmentation (PLSDA) to enhance the prediction capabilities and the performance of deep learning models. This paper explains how PLSDA uses part-of-speech information to identify words and make use of different augmentation strategies to find semantically related substitutions to generate new instances for training. Evaluations of PLSDA is conducted on a variety of datasets across different text classification tasks. When PLSDA is applied to four deep learning models, results show that classifiers trained with PLSDA achieve 1.3% accuracy improvement on average.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Cyril Goutte, Xiaodan Zhu
Publisher	Springer
Pages	521-527
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9783030473570
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47358-7_53
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2020
Event	33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2020 - Ottawa, Canada Duration: 13 May 2020 → 15 May 2020

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	12109 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2020
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Ottawa
Period	13/05/20 → 15/05/20

Keywords

Data augmentation
Deep learning
Lexical data augmentation
Text classification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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10.1007/978-3-030-47358-7_53

http://hdl.handle.net/10397/90116

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Xiang, R., Chersoni, E., Long, Y., Lu, Q., & Huang, C. R. (2020). Lexical Data Augmentation for Text Classification in Deep Learning. In C. Goutte, & X. Zhu (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2020, Proceedings (pp. 521-527). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12109 LNAI). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47358-7_53

Xiang, Rong ; Chersoni, Emmanuele ; Long, Yunfei et al. / Lexical Data Augmentation for Text Classification in Deep Learning. Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2020, Proceedings. editor / Cyril Goutte ; Xiaodan Zhu. Springer, 2020. pp. 521-527 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Xiang, R, Chersoni, E, Long, Y, Lu, Q & Huang, CR 2020, Lexical Data Augmentation for Text Classification in Deep Learning. in C Goutte & X Zhu (eds), Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2020, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12109 LNAI, Springer, pp. 521-527, 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2020, Ottawa, Canada, 13/05/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47358-7_53

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Cyril Goutte; Xiaodan Zhu. Springer, 2020. p. 521-527 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12109 LNAI).

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