Research on Chemical Accident News Classification Based on CNN and BiLSTM-Self-Attention

Chemical accident news data encompasses essential information such as news headlines, news content, and news sources, with the context of news content playing a crucial role. To enhance the accuracy of text feature extraction and improve the efficiency of chemical accident news classification, this paper introduces a feature fusion-based classification approach. The proposed model employs a multi-layer convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract local features from the text of chemical accident news. Additionally, a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network is utilized to capture global features, supplemented by the integration of a Self-Attention mechanism behind the BiLSTM network to assign weights to the features and reduce noise. The local and global features are then fused to enrich the semantic information. Furthermore, the feature fusion information undergoes maximum pooling and average pooling to reduce dimensionality and enhance the training speed. Finally, the information is fed into a Softmax layer for classification. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed neural network model, namely ABLSACNN (Add-CNN-BiLSTM-Self-Attention), outperforms the CNN-Self-Attention model. The ABLSACNN model exhibits an improvement of1.59% in accuracy, 2.46% in recall rate, and 1.93% in F1 score on the chemical accident news dataset, thereby showcasing its superiority.