Aspect-Category based Sentiment Analysis with Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network

Hongjie Cai, Yaofeng Tu, Xiangsheng Zhou, Jianfei Yu, Rui Xia


Abstract
Most of the aspect based sentiment analysis research aims at identifying the sentiment polarities toward some explicit aspect terms while ignores implicit aspects in text. To capture both explicit and implicit aspects, we focus on aspect-category based sentiment analysis, which involves joint aspect category detection and category-oriented sentiment classification. However, currently only a few simple studies have focused on this problem. The shortcomings in the way they defined the task make their approaches difficult to effectively learn the inner-relations between categories and the inter-relations between categories and sentiments. In this work, we re-formalize the task as a category-sentiment hierarchy prediction problem, which contains a hierarchy output structure to first identify multiple aspect categories in a piece of text, and then predict the sentiment for each of the identified categories. Specifically, we propose a Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network (Hier-GCN), where a lower-level GCN is to model the inner-relations among multiple categories, and the higher-level GCN is to capture the inter-relations between aspect categories and sentiments. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that our hierarchy output structure is superior over existing ones, and the Hier-GCN model can consistently achieve the best results on four benchmarks.
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2020.coling-main.72
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Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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December
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2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
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Donia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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833–843
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.72
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.72
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Hongjie Cai, Yaofeng Tu, Xiangsheng Zhou, Jianfei Yu, and Rui Xia. 2020. Aspect-Category based Sentiment Analysis with Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 833–843, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Aspect-Category based Sentiment Analysis with Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network (Cai et al., COLING 2020)
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