15.1. Sentiment Analysis and the Dataset
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With the proliferation of online social media and review platforms, a plethora of opinionated data have been logged, bearing great potential for supporting decision making processes. Sentiment analysis studies people’s sentiments in their produced text, such as product reviews, blog comments, and forum discussions. It enjoys wide applications to fields as diverse as politics (e.g., analysis of public sentiments towards policies), finance (e.g., analysis of sentiments of the market), and marketing (e.g., product research and brand management).

Since sentiments can be categorized as discrete polarities or scales (e.g., positive and negative), we can consider sentiment analysis as a text classification task, which transforms a varying-length text sequence into a fixed-length text category. In this chapter, we will use Stanford’s large movie review dataset for sentiment analysis. It consists of a training set and a testing set, either containing 25000 movie reviews downloaded from IMDb. In both datasets, there are equal number of “positive” and “negative” labels, indicating different sentiment polarities.

import os
from mxnet import np, npx
from d2l import mxnet as d2l

npx.set_np()
import os
import torch
from torch import nn
from d2l import torch as d2l

15.1.1. Reading the Dataset

First, download and extract this IMDb review dataset in the path ../data/aclImdb.

#@save
d2l.DATA_HUB['aclImdb'] = (
    'http://ai.stanford.edu/~amaas/data/sentiment/aclImdb_v1.tar.gz',
    '01ada507287d82875905620988597833ad4e0903')

data_dir = d2l.download_extract('aclImdb', 'aclImdb')
#@save
d2l.DATA_HUB['aclImdb'] = (
    'http://ai.stanford.edu/~amaas/data/sentiment/aclImdb_v1.tar.gz',
    '01ada507287d82875905620988597833ad4e0903')

data_dir = d2l.download_extract('aclImdb', 'aclImdb')

Next, read the training and test datasets. Each example is a review and its label: 1 for “positive” and 0 for “negative”.

#@save
def read_imdb(data_dir, is_train):
    """Read the IMDb review dataset text sequences and labels."""
    data, labels = [], []
    for label in ('pos', 'neg'):
        folder_name = os.path.join(data_dir, 'train' if is_train else 'test',
                                   label)
        for file in os.listdir(folder_name):
            with open(os.path.join(folder_name, file), 'rb') as f:
                review = f.read().decode('utf-8').replace('\n', '')
                data.append(review)
                labels.append(1 if label == 'pos' else 0)
    return data, labels

train_data = read_imdb(data_dir, is_train=True)
print('# trainings:', len(train_data[0]))
for x, y in zip(train_data[0][:3], train_data[1][:3]):
    print('label:', y, 'review:', x[0:60])
# trainings: 25000
label: 1 review: Henry Hathaway was daring, as well as enthusiastic, for his
label: 1 review: An unassuming, subtle and lean film, "The Man in the White S
label: 1 review: Eddie Murphy really made me laugh my ass off on this HBO sta
#@save
def read_imdb(data_dir, is_train):
    """Read the IMDb review dataset text sequences and labels."""
    data, labels = [], []
    for label in ('pos', 'neg'):
        folder_name = os.path.join(data_dir, 'train' if is_train else 'test',
                                   label)
        for file in os.listdir(folder_name):
            with open(os.path.join(folder_name, file), 'rb') as f:
                review = f.read().decode('utf-8').replace('\n', '')
                data.append(review)
                labels.append(1 if label == 'pos' else 0)
    return data, labels

train_data = read_imdb(data_dir, is_train=True)
print('# trainings:', len(train_data[0]))
for x, y in zip(train_data[0][:3], train_data[1][:3]):
    print('label:', y, 'review:', x[0:60])
# trainings: 25000
label: 1 review: Henry Hathaway was daring, as well as enthusiastic, for his
label: 1 review: An unassuming, subtle and lean film, "The Man in the White S
label: 1 review: Eddie Murphy really made me laugh my ass off on this HBO sta

15.1.2. Preprocessing the Dataset

Treating each word as a token and filtering out words that appear less than 5 times, we create a vocabulary out of the training dataset.

train_tokens = d2l.tokenize(train_data[0], token='word')
vocab = d2l.Vocab(train_tokens, min_freq=5, reserved_tokens=['<pad>'])
train_tokens = d2l.tokenize(train_data[0], token='word')
vocab = d2l.Vocab(train_tokens, min_freq=5, reserved_tokens=['<pad>'])

After tokenization, let us plot the histogram of review lengths in tokens.

d2l.set_figsize()
d2l.plt.xlabel('# tokens per review')
d2l.plt.ylabel('count')
d2l.plt.hist([len(line) for line in train_tokens], bins=range(0, 1000, 50));
../_images/output_sentiment-analysis-and-dataset_70179c_39_0.svg
d2l.set_figsize()
d2l.plt.xlabel('# tokens per review')
d2l.plt.ylabel('count')
d2l.plt.hist([len(line) for line in train_tokens], bins=range(0, 1000, 50));
../_images/output_sentiment-analysis-and-dataset_70179c_42_0.svg

As we expected, the reviews have varying lengths. To process a minibatch of such reviews at each time, we set the length of each review to 500 with truncation and padding, which is similar to the preprocessing step for the machine translation dataset in Section 9.5.

num_steps = 500  # sequence length
train_features = np.array([d2l.truncate_pad(
    vocab[line], num_steps, vocab['<pad>']) for line in train_tokens])
print(train_features.shape)
(25000, 500)
num_steps = 500  # sequence length
train_features = torch.tensor([d2l.truncate_pad(
    vocab[line], num_steps, vocab['<pad>']) for line in train_tokens])
print(train_features.shape)
torch.Size([25000, 500])

15.1.3. Creating Data Iterators

Now we can create data iterators. At each iteration, a minibatch of examples are returned.

train_iter = d2l.load_array((train_features, train_data[1]), 64)

for X, y in train_iter:
    print('X:', X.shape, ', y:', y.shape)
    break
print('# batches:', len(train_iter))
X: (64, 500) , y: (64,)
# batches: 391
train_iter = d2l.load_array((train_features, torch.tensor(train_data[1])), 64)

for X, y in train_iter:
    print('X:', X.shape, ', y:', y.shape)
    break
print('# batches:', len(train_iter))
X: torch.Size([64, 500]) , y: torch.Size([64])
# batches: 391

15.1.4. Putting All Things Together

Last, we wrap up the above steps into the load_data_imdb function. It returns training and test data iterators and the vocabulary of the IMDb review dataset.

#@save
def load_data_imdb(batch_size, num_steps=500):
    """Return data iterators and the vocabulary of the IMDb review dataset."""
    data_dir = d2l.download_extract('aclImdb', 'aclImdb')
    train_data = read_imdb(data_dir, True)
    test_data = read_imdb(data_dir, False)
    train_tokens = d2l.tokenize(train_data[0], token='word')
    test_tokens = d2l.tokenize(test_data[0], token='word')
    vocab = d2l.Vocab(train_tokens, min_freq=5)
    train_features = np.array([d2l.truncate_pad(
        vocab[line], num_steps, vocab['<pad>']) for line in train_tokens])
    test_features = np.array([d2l.truncate_pad(
        vocab[line], num_steps, vocab['<pad>']) for line in test_tokens])
    train_iter = d2l.load_array((train_features, train_data[1]), batch_size)
    test_iter = d2l.load_array((test_features, test_data[1]), batch_size,
                               is_train=False)
    return train_iter, test_iter, vocab
#@save
def load_data_imdb(batch_size, num_steps=500):
    """Return data iterators and the vocabulary of the IMDb review dataset."""
    data_dir = d2l.download_extract('aclImdb', 'aclImdb')
    train_data = read_imdb(data_dir, True)
    test_data = read_imdb(data_dir, False)
    train_tokens = d2l.tokenize(train_data[0], token='word')
    test_tokens = d2l.tokenize(test_data[0], token='word')
    vocab = d2l.Vocab(train_tokens, min_freq=5)
    train_features = torch.tensor([d2l.truncate_pad(
        vocab[line], num_steps, vocab['<pad>']) for line in train_tokens])
    test_features = torch.tensor([d2l.truncate_pad(
        vocab[line], num_steps, vocab['<pad>']) for line in test_tokens])
    train_iter = d2l.load_array((train_features, torch.tensor(train_data[1])),
                                batch_size)
    test_iter = d2l.load_array((test_features, torch.tensor(test_data[1])),
                               batch_size,
                               is_train=False)
    return train_iter, test_iter, vocab

15.1.5. Summary

  • Sentiment analysis studies people’s sentiments in their produced text, which is considered as a text classification problem that transforms a varying-length text sequence into a fixed-length text category.

  • After preprocessing, we can load Stanford’s large movie review dataset (IMDb review dataset) into data iterators with a vocabulary.

15.1.6. Exercises

  1. What hyperparameters in this section can we modify to accelerate training sentiment analysis models?

  2. Can you implement a function to load the dataset of Amazon reviews into data iterators and labels for sentiment analysis?