Title
Understanding Negations in Information Processing: Learning from Replicating Human Behavior.
Abstract
Information systems experience an ever-growing volume of unstructured data, particularly in the form of textual materials. This represents a rich source of information from which one can create value for people, organizations and businesses. For instance, recommender systems can benefit from automatically understanding preferences based on user reviews or social media. However, it is difficult for computer programs to correctly infer meaning from narrative content. One major challenge is negations that invert the interpretation of words and sentences. As a remedy, this paper proposes a novel learning strategy to detect negations: we apply reinforcement learning to find a policy that replicates the human perception of negations based on an exogenous response, such as a user rating for reviews. Our method yields several benefits, as it eliminates the former need for expensive and subjective manual labeling in an intermediate stage. Moreover, the inferred policy can be used to derive statistical inferences and implications regarding how humans process and act on negations.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Artificial Intelligence
Information system,Recommender system,Social media,Information processing,Negation,Computer science,Unstructured data,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Perception,Machine learning,Reinforcement learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1704.05356
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
21
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicolas Prollochs1277.01
Stefan Feuerriegel221931.91
Dirk Neumann329437.29