Hashtag Recommendation Using End-To-End Memory Networks with Hierarchical Attention

Haoran Huang, Qi Zhang, Yeyun Gong, Xuanjing Huang


Abstract
On microblogging services, people usually use hashtags to mark microblogs, which have a specific theme or content, making them easier for users to find. Hence, how to automatically recommend hashtags for microblogs has received much attention in recent years. Previous deep neural network-based hashtag recommendation approaches converted the task into a multi-class classification problem. However, most of these methods only took the microblog itself into consideration. Motivated by the intuition that the history of users should impact the recommendation procedure, in this work, we extend end-to-end memory networks to perform this task. We incorporate the histories of users into the external memory and introduce a hierarchical attention mechanism to select more appropriate histories. To train and evaluate the proposed method, we also construct a dataset based on microblogs collected from Twitter. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed methods can significantly outperform state-of-the-art methods. By incorporating the hierarchical attention mechanism, the relative improvement in the proposed method over the state-of-the-art method is around 67.9% in the F1-score.
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C16-1090
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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943–952
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Haoran Huang, Qi Zhang, Yeyun Gong, and Xuanjing Huang. 2016. Hashtag Recommendation Using End-To-End Memory Networks with Hierarchical Attention. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 943–952, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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