Refine, Align, and Aggregate: Multi-view Linguistic Features Enhancement for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction

Guixin Su, Mingmin Wu, Zhongqiang Huang, Yongcheng Zhang, Tongguan Wang, Yuxue Hu, Ying Sha


Abstract
Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE) aims to extract the triplets of aspect terms, their associated sentiment and opinion terms. Previous works based on different modeling paradigms have achieved promising results. However, these methods struggle to comprehensively explore the various specific relations between sentiment elements in multi-view linguistic features, which is the prior indication effect for facilitating sentiment triplets extraction, requiring to align and aggregate them to capture the complementary higher-order interactions. In this paper, we propose Multi-view Linguistic Features Enhancement (MvLFE) to explore the aforementioned prior indication effect in the “Refine, Align, and Aggregate” learning process. Specifically, we first introduce the relational graph attention network to encode the word-pair relations represented by each linguistic feature and refine them to pay more attention to the aspect-opinion pairs. Next, we employ the multi-view contrastive learning to align them at a fine-grained level in the contextual semantic space to maintain semantic consistency. Finally, we utilize the multi-semantic cross attention to capture and aggregate the complementary higher-order interactions between diverse linguistic features to enhance the aspect-opinion relations. Experimental results on several benchmark datasets show the effectiveness and robustness of our model, which achieves state-of-the-art performance.
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2024.findings-acl.191
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Guixin Su, Mingmin Wu, Zhongqiang Huang, Yongcheng Zhang, Tongguan Wang, Yuxue Hu, and Ying Sha. 2024. Refine, Align, and Aggregate: Multi-view Linguistic Features Enhancement for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 3212–3228, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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