Optimizer algorithms and convolutional neural networks for text classification

Abstract

Lately, deep learning has improved the algorithms and the architectures of several natural language processing (NLP) tasks. In spite of that, the performance of any deep learning model is widely impacted by the used optimizer algorithm; which allows updating the model parameters, finding the optimal weights, and minimizing the value of the loss function. Thus, this paper proposes a new convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for text classification (TC) and sentiment analysis and uses it with various optimizer algorithms in the literature. Actually, in NLP, and particularly for sentiment classification concerns, the need for more empirical experiments increases the probability of selecting the pertinent optimizer. Hence, we have evaluated various optimizers on three types of text review datasets: small, medium, and large. Thereby, we examined the optimizers regarding the data amount and we have implemented our CNN model on three different sentiment analysis datasets so as to binary label text reviews. The experimental results illustrate that the adaptive optimization algorithms Adam and root mean square propagation (RMSprop) have surpassed the other optimizers. Moreover, our best CNN model which employed the RMSprop optimizer has achieved 90.48% accuracy and surpassed the state-of-the-art CNN models for binary sentiment classification problems.