| Challenge: | Existing deep neural models for sentiment polarity classification require large amounts of training data. |
| Approach: | They propose to feed generic cues into the training process of deep convolutional neural networks for sentiment analysis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves sentiment polarity classification on a range of datasets in seven languages. |
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