Context-aware Embedding for Targeted Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Bin Liang, Jiachen Du, Ruifeng Xu, Binyang Li, Hejiao Huang


Abstract
Attention-based neural models were employed to detect the different aspects and sentiment polarities of the same target in targeted aspect-based sentiment analysis (TABSA). However, existing methods do not specifically pre-train reasonable embeddings for targets and aspects in TABSA. This may result in targets or aspects having the same vector representations in different contexts and losing the context-dependent information. To address this problem, we propose a novel method to refine the embeddings of targets and aspects. Such pivotal embedding refinement utilizes a sparse coefficient vector to adjust the embeddings of target and aspect from the context. Hence the embeddings of targets and aspects can be refined from the highly correlative words instead of using context-independent or randomly initialized vectors. Experiment results on two benchmark datasets show that our approach yields the state-of-the-art performance in TABSA task.
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P19-1462
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
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Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4678–4683
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-1462
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1462
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Bin Liang, Jiachen Du, Ruifeng Xu, Binyang Li, and Hejiao Huang. 2019. Context-aware Embedding for Targeted Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 4678–4683, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Context-aware Embedding for Targeted Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (Liang et al., ACL 2019)
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