Deep Context- and Relation-Aware Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Shinhyeok Oh, Dongyub Lee, Taesun Whang, IlNam Park, Seo Gaeun, EungGyun Kim, Harksoo Kim


Abstract
Existing works for aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) have adopted a unified approach, which allows the interactive relations among subtasks. However, we observe that these methods tend to predict polarities based on the literal meaning of aspect and opinion terms and mainly consider relations implicitly among subtasks at the word level. In addition, identifying multiple aspect–opinion pairs with their polarities is much more challenging. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of contextual information w.r.t. the aspect and opinion are further required in ABSA. In this paper, we propose Deep Contextualized Relation-Aware Network (DCRAN), which allows interactive relations among subtasks with deep contextual information based on two modules (i.e., Aspect and Opinion Propagation and Explicit Self-Supervised Strategies). Especially, we design novel self-supervised strategies for ABSA, which have strengths in dealing with multiple aspects. Experimental results show that DCRAN significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods by large margins on three widely used benchmarks.
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2021.acl-short.63
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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August
Year:
2021
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Online
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Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
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ACL | IJCNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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495–503
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.63
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.63
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Shinhyeok Oh, Dongyub Lee, Taesun Whang, IlNam Park, Seo Gaeun, EungGyun Kim, and Harksoo Kim. 2021. Deep Context- and Relation-Aware Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 495–503, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Deep Context- and Relation-Aware Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (Oh et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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