@inproceedings{liang-etal-2021-iterative-multi,
title = "An Iterative Multi-Knowledge Transfer Network for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis",
author = "Liang, Yunlong and
Meng, Fandong and
Zhang, Jinchao and
Chen, Yufeng and
Xu, Jinan and
Zhou, Jie",
editor = "Moens, Marie-Francine and
Huang, Xuanjing and
Specia, Lucia and
Yih, Scott Wen-tau",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.152",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.152",
pages = "1768--1780",
abstract = "Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) mainly involves three subtasks: aspect term extraction, opinion term extraction, and aspect-level sentiment classification, which are typically handled in a separate or joint manner. However, previous approaches do not well exploit the interactive relations among three subtasks and do not pertinently leverage the easily available document-level labeled domain/sentiment knowledge, which restricts their performances. To address these issues, we propose a novel Iterative Multi-Knowledge Transfer Network (IMKTN) for end-to-end ABSA. For one thing, through the interactive correlations between the ABSA subtasks, our IMKTN transfers the task-specific knowledge from any two of the three subtasks to another one at the token level by utilizing a well-designed routing algorithm, that is, any two of the three subtasks will help the third one. For another, our IMKTN pertinently transfers the document-level knowledge, i.e., domain-specific and sentiment-related knowledge, to the aspect-level subtasks to further enhance the corresponding performance. Experimental results on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our approach.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T An Iterative Multi-Knowledge Transfer Network for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
%A Liang, Yunlong
%A Meng, Fandong
%A Zhang, Jinchao
%A Chen, Yufeng
%A Xu, Jinan
%A Zhou, Jie
%Y Moens, Marie-Francine
%Y Huang, Xuanjing
%Y Specia, Lucia
%Y Yih, Scott Wen-tau
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
%D 2021
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
%F liang-etal-2021-iterative-multi
%X Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) mainly involves three subtasks: aspect term extraction, opinion term extraction, and aspect-level sentiment classification, which are typically handled in a separate or joint manner. However, previous approaches do not well exploit the interactive relations among three subtasks and do not pertinently leverage the easily available document-level labeled domain/sentiment knowledge, which restricts their performances. To address these issues, we propose a novel Iterative Multi-Knowledge Transfer Network (IMKTN) for end-to-end ABSA. For one thing, through the interactive correlations between the ABSA subtasks, our IMKTN transfers the task-specific knowledge from any two of the three subtasks to another one at the token level by utilizing a well-designed routing algorithm, that is, any two of the three subtasks will help the third one. For another, our IMKTN pertinently transfers the document-level knowledge, i.e., domain-specific and sentiment-related knowledge, to the aspect-level subtasks to further enhance the corresponding performance. Experimental results on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our approach.
%R 10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.152
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.152
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.152
%P 1768-1780
Markdown (Informal)
[An Iterative Multi-Knowledge Transfer Network for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis](https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.152) (Liang et al., Findings 2021)
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