Vietnamese Document Classification Using Hierarchical Attention Networks

Automatic document classification is considered to be an important part of managing and processing document in digital form, which is increasing. While there are a number of studies addressing the problem of English document classification, there are few studies that deal with the problem of Vietnamese document classification. In this paper, we propose to employ a hierarchical attention networks (HAN) for Vietnamese document classification. The HAN network has the two-level architecture with attention mechanisms applied to the word level and sentence level from which it reflects the hierarchical structure of the document. Experimental results are conducted on the Vietnamese news Database which is collected from the Vietnamese news Web sites. The results show that our proposed method is promising in the Vietnamese document classification problem. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.