Semi-supervised Short Text Classification Based On Dual-channel Data Augmentation

In practical applications, high-quality labeled data is critical for short text classification. But in many cases, it is expensive and time-consuming to obtain labeled information. Semi-supervised short text classification is hence attracting more attention. However, due to the sparsity of short texts, the performance of existing short text classification models always needs to be improved. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a semi-supervised Short text classification method based on Dual-Channel data Augmentation called SDCA. More specifically, in order to solve the sparsity of short texts, this model first adopts the multi-stage word-level TCN (Temporal Convolutional Network)-based attention to enhanced semantic features and an one-dimensional convolution-based attention mechanism to augment the relevance of surrounding short texts. Secondly, the unlabeled data are augmented by word embedding weighted augmentation and word replacement augmentation, so that the model can make full use of the unlabeled short texts and further enhance the network training. Finally, extensive experiments conducted on four benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model on semi-supervised short text classification.