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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
  • Renmin University of China
  • Beijing Key Laboratory of Big Data Management and Analysis Methods
  • Purdue University
  • SUNY Buffalo
  • 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
Event10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021 - Qingdao, China
Duration: Oct 13 2021Oct 17 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13028 LNAI

Conference

Conference10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQingdao
Period10/13/2110/17/21

Keywords

  • Fine-grained sentiment transfer
  • Reward augmented training

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