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Document classification is a challenging task with important applications. The deep learning approaches to the problem have gained much attention recently. Despite the progress, the proposed models do not incorporate the knowledge of the document structure in the architecture efficiently and not take into account the contexting importance of words and sentences. In this paper, we propose a new approach based on a combination of convolutional neural networks, gated recurrent units, and attention mechanisms for document classification tasks. We use of convolution layers varying window sizes to extract more meaningful, generalizable and abstract features by the hierarchical representation. The proposed method in improves the results of the current attention-based approaches for document classification.
J. Abreu and L. Fred—Contributed equally and are both first authors.
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Abreu, J., Fred, L., Macêdo, D., Zanchettin, C. (2019). Hierarchical Attentional Hybrid Neural Networks for Document Classification. In: Tetko, I., Kůrková, V., Karpov, P., Theis, F. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019: Workshop and Special Sessions. ICANN 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11731. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30493-5_39
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