Channel Attention TextCNN with Feature Word Extraction for Chinese Sentiment Analysis

Chinese short text sentiment analysis can help understand society’s views on various hot topics. Many existing sentiment analysis methods are based on sentiment dictionaries. Still, sentiment dictionaries are easily affected by subjective factors. They require a lot of time to build as well as maintenance to prevent obsolescence. For the aim of extracting rich information within texts more effectively, we propose a Channel Attention TextCNN with Feature Word Extraction model (CAT-FWE). The feature word extraction module helps us choose words that affect the sentiment of reviews. Then, these words are integrated with multi-level semantic information to enhance the information of sentences. In addition, the channel attention textCNN module that is a promotion of traditional TextCNN tends to pay more attention to those meaningful features. It eliminates the impacts of features that do not make any sense effectively. We apply our CAT-FWE model to both fine-grained classification and binary classification tasks for Chinese short texts. Experiment results show that it can improve the performance of emotion recognition.