SenticNet 6: Ensemble Application of Symbolic and Subsymbolic AI for Sentiment Analysis

Erik Cambria, Yang Li, Frank Z. Xing, Soujanya Poria, Kenneth Kwok

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Abstract

Deep learning has unlocked new paths towards the emulation of the peculiarly-human capability of learning from examples. While this kind of bottom-up learning works well for tasks such as image classification or object detection, it is not as effective when it comes to natural language processing. Communication is much more than learning a sequence of letters and words: it requires a basic understanding of the world and social norms, cultural awareness, commonsense knowledge, etc.; all things that we mostly learn in a top-down manner. In this work, we integrate top-down and bottom-up learning via an ensemble of symbolic and subsymbolic AI tools, which we apply to the interesting problem of polarity detection from text. In particular, we integrate logical reasoning within deep learning architectures to build a new version of SenticNet, a commonsense knowledge base for sentiment analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIKM 2020 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages105-114
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450368599
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Oct 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2020 - Virtual, Online, Ireland
Duration: 19 Oct 202023 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Conference

Conference29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2020
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityVirtual, Online
Period19/10/2023/10/20

Keywords

  • knowledge representation and reasoning
  • natural language processing
  • sentiment analysis

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