SwissCheese at SemEval 2016 Task 4: Sentiment Classification Using an Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks with Distant Supervision
In this paper, we propose a classifier for predicting message level sentiments of English micro blog messages from Twitter. Our method builds upon the convolutional sentence embedding approach proposed by (Severyn and Moschitti, 2015a; Severyn and Moschitti, 2015b) We leverage large amounts of data with distant supervision to train an ensemble of 2 layer convolutional neural networks whose predictions are combined using a random forest classifier. Our approach was evaluated on the datasets of the SemEval 2016 competition (Task 4) outperforming all other approaches for the Message Polarity Classification task.
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