Question: Why do they use non-static channels as opposed to static ones?
Evidence: CNN can automatically extract key features from the training data. It grasps contextual local features from a sentence and, after several convolution operations, it forms a global feature vector out of those local features. CNN does not need the hand-crafted features used in traditional supervised classifiers. Such hand-crafted features are difficult to compute and a good guess for encoding the features is always necessary in order to get satisfactory results. CNN, instead, uses a hierarchy of local features which are important to learn context. The hand-crafted features often ignore such a hierarchy of local features.
Features extracted by CNN can therefore be used instead of hand-crafted features, as they carry more useful information. The idea behind convolution is to take the dot product of a vector of INLINEFORM0 weights INLINEFORM1 also known as kernel vector with each INLINEFORM2 -gram in the sentence INLINEFORM3 to obtain another sequence of features INLINEFORM4 . DISPLAYFORM0 
Thus, a max pooling operation is applied over the feature map and the maximum value INLINEFORM0 is taken as the feature corresponding to this particular kernel vector. Similarly, varying kernel vectors and window sizes are used to obtain multiple features BIBREF32 . For each word INLINEFORM1 in the vocabulary, a INLINEFORM2 -dimensional vector representation is given in a look up table that is learned from the data BIBREF33 . The vector representation of a sentence, hence, is a concatenation of vectors for individual words. Similarly, we can have look up tables for other features. One might want to provide features other than words if these features are suspected to be helpful. The convolution kernels are then applied to word vectors instead of individual words.
We use these features to train higher layers of the CNN, in order to represent bigger groups of words in sentences. We denote the feature learned at hidden neuron INLINEFORM0 in layer INLINEFORM1 as INLINEFORM2 . Multiple features may be learned in parallel in the same CNN layer. The features learned in each layer are used to train the next layer: DISPLAYFORM0 
where * indicates convolution and INLINEFORM0 is a weight kernel for hidden neuron INLINEFORM1 and INLINEFORM2 is the total number of hidden neurons. The CNN sentence model preserves the order of words by adopting convolution kernels of gradually increasing sizes that span an increasing number of words and ultimately the entire sentence. As mentioned above, each word in a sentence is represented using word embeddings.
We employ the publicly available word2vec vectors, which were trained on 100 billion words from Google News. The vectors are of dimensionality 300, trained using the continuous bag-of-words architecture BIBREF33 . Words not present in the set of pre-trained words are initialized randomly. However, while training the neural network, we use non-static representations. These include the word vectors, taken as input, into the list of parameters to be learned during training.
Two primary reasons motivated us to use non-static channels as opposed to static ones. Firstly, the common presence of informal language and words in tweets resulted in a relatively high random initialization of word vectors due to the unavailability of these words in the word2vec dictionary. Secondly, sarcastic sentences are known to include polarity shifts in sentimental and emotional degrees. For example, “I love the pain present in breakups" is a sarcastic sentence with a significant change in sentimental polarity. As word2vec was not trained to incorporate these nuances, we allow our models to update the embeddings during training in order to include them. Each sentence is wrapped to a window of INLINEFORM0 , where INLINEFORM1 is the maximum number of words amongst all sentences in the dataset. We use the output of the fully-connected layer of the network as our feature vector.
We have done two kinds of experiments: firstly, we used CNN for the classification; secondly, we extracted features from the fully-connected layer of the CNN and fed them to an SVM for the final classification. The latter CNN-SVM scheme is quite useful for text classification as shown by Poria et al. BIBREF18 . We carry out n-fold cross-validation on the dataset using CNN. In every fold iteration, in order to obtain the training and test features, the output of the fully-connected layer is treated as features to be used for the final classification using SVM. Table TABREF12 shows the training settings for each CNN model developed in this work. ReLU is used as the non-linear activation function of the network. The network configurations of all models developed in this work are given in Table TABREF12 .
Two primary reasons motivated us to use non-static channels as opposed to static ones. Firstly, the common presence of informal language and words in tweets resulted in a relatively high random initialization of word vectors due to the unavailability of these words in the word2vec dictionary. Secondly, sarcastic sentences are known to include polarity shifts in sentimental and emotional degrees.
Answer: Firstly, the common presence of informal language and words in tweets resulted in a relatively high random initialization of word vectors due to the unavailability of these words in the word2vec dictionary. Secondly, sarcastic sentences are known to include polarity shifts in sentimental and emotional degrees.