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Disconnected Recurrent Neural Networks for Text Categorization

1 Jul 2018ACL 2018 7archive 2025-07-28

Baoxin Wang

Recurrent neural network (RNN) has achieved remarkable performance in text categorization. RNN can model the entire sequence and capture long-term dependencies, but it does not do well in extracting key patterns. In contrast, convolutional neural network (CNN) is good at extracting local and position-invariant features. In this paper, we present a novel model named disconnected recurrent neural network (DRNN), which incorporates position-invariance into RNN. By limiting the distance of information flow in RNN, the hidden state at each time step is restricted to represent words near the current position. The proposed model makes great improvements over RNN and CNN models and achieves the best performance on several benchmark datasets for text categorization.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Sentiment Analysis Amazon Review Full DRNN Accuracy 64.43 #3 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Sentiment Analysis Amazon Review Polarity DRNN Accuracy 96.49 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Sentiment Analysis Yelp Binary classification DRNN Error 2.73 #9 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Sentiment Analysis Yelp Fine-grained classification DRNN Error 30.85 #7 of 17 Archive leaderboard report
Text Classification AG News DRNN Error 5.53 #5 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Text Classification DBpedia DRNN Error 0.81 #8 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Text Classification Yahoo! Answers DRNN Accuracy 76.26 #2 of 10 Archive leaderboard report

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