Summary of Discovering Influential Text Using Convolutional Neural Networks, by Megan Ayers et al.
Discovering influential text using convolutional neural networks
by Megan Ayers, Luke Sanford, Margaret Roberts, Eddie Yang
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed method combines NLP interpretability techniques with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to flexibly discover clusters of similar text phrases that are predictive of human reactions to texts. The approach connects efforts to mine unstructured texts for features that causally affect outcomes, allowing researchers to identify text treatments and their effects under certain assumptions. The method is applied to two datasets, demonstrating its ability to detect known text treatments and flexibly discover new ones with varying textual structures. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study uses a special kind of artificial intelligence called convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to find patterns in texts that make people react in certain ways. It connects this idea to how researchers currently test the impact of different text treatments. The method can identify what works and what doesn’t, even if it’s not something that has been tested before. This helps us understand how people respond to different texts. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Nlp
