scholarly journals Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Using Aspect Map

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 3239
Author(s):  
Yunseok Noh ◽  
Seyoung Park ◽  
Seong-Bae Park

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is the task of classifying the sentiment of a specific aspect in a text. Because a single text usually has multiple aspects which are expressed independently, ABSA is a crucial task for in-depth opinion mining. A key point of solving ABSA is to align sentiment expressions with their proper target aspect in a text. Thus, many recent neural models have applied attention mechanisms to learning the alignment. However, it is problematic to depend solely on attention mechanisms to achieve this, because most sentiment expressions such as “nice” and “bad” are too general to be aligned with a proper aspect even through an attention mechanism. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a novel convolutional neural network (CNN)-based aspect-level sentiment classification model, which consists of two CNNs. Because sentiment expressions relevant to an aspect usually appear near the aspect expressions of the aspect, the proposed model first finds the aspect expressions for a given aspect and then focuses on the sentiment expressions around the aspect expressions to determine the final sentiment of an aspect. Thus, the first CNN extracts the positional information of aspect expressions for a target aspect and expresses the information as an aspect map. Even if there exist no data with annotations on direct relation between aspects and their expressions, the aspect map can be obtained effectively by learning it in a weakly supervised manner. Then, the second CNN classifies the sentiment of the target aspect in a text using the aspect map. The proposed model is evaluated on SemEval 2016 Task 5 dataset and is compared with several baseline models. According to the experimental results, the proposed model does not only outperform the baseline models but also shows state-of-the-art performance for the dataset.

Author(s):  
Penghui Wei ◽  
Wenji Mao ◽  
Guandan Chen

Analyzing public attitudes plays an important role in opinion mining systems. Stance detection aims to determine from a text whether its author is in favor of, against, or neutral towards a given target. One challenge of this task is that a text may not explicitly express an attitude towards the target, but existing approaches utilize target content alone to build models. Moreover, although weakly supervised approaches have been proposed to ease the burden of manually annotating largescale training data, such approaches are confronted with noisy labeling problem. To address the above two issues, in this paper, we propose a Topic-Aware Reinforced Model (TARM) for weakly supervised stance detection. Our model consists of two complementary components: (1) a detection network that incorporates target-related topic information into representation learning for identifying stance effectively; (2) a policy network that learns to eliminate noisy instances from auto-labeled data based on off-policy reinforcement learning. Two networks are alternately optimized to improve each other’s performances. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed model TARM outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches.


Author(s):  
Akshi Kumar ◽  
Victor Hugo C. Albuquerque

Sentiment analysis on social media relies on comprehending the natural language and using a robust machine learning technique that learns multiple layers of representations or features of the data and produces state-of-the-art prediction results. The cultural miscellanies, geographically limited trending topic hash-tags, access to aboriginal language keyboards, and conversational comfort in native language compound the linguistic challenges of sentiment analysis. This research evaluates the performance of cross-lingual contextual word embeddings and zero-shot transfer learning in projecting predictions from resource-rich English to resource-poor Hindi language. The cross-lingual XLM-RoBERTa classification model is trained and fine-tuned using the English language Benchmark SemEval 2017 dataset Task 4 A and subsequently zero-shot transfer learning is used to evaluate the classification model on two Hindi sentence-level sentiment analysis datasets, namely, IITP-Movie and IITP-Product review datasets. The proposed model compares favorably to state-of-the-art approaches and gives an effective solution to sentence-level (tweet-level) analysis of sentiments in a resource-poor scenario. The proposed model compares favorably to state-of-the-art approaches and achieves an average performance accuracy of 60.93 on both the Hindi datasets.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Qingtian Zeng ◽  
Xishi Zhao ◽  
Xiaohui Hu ◽  
Hua Duan ◽  
Zhongying Zhao ◽  
...  

Word embeddings have been successfully applied in many natural language processing tasks due to its their effectiveness. However, the state-of-the-art algorithms for learning word representations from large amounts of text documents ignore emotional information, which is a significant research problem that must be addressed. To solve the above problem, we propose an emotional word embedding (EWE) model for sentiment analysis in this paper. This method first applies pre-trained word vectors to represent document features using two different linear weighting methods. Then, the resulting document vectors are input to a classification model and used to train a text sentiment classifier, which is based on a neural network. In this way, the emotional polarity of the text is propagated into the word vectors. The experimental results on three kinds of real-world data sets demonstrate that the proposed EWE model achieves superior performances on text sentiment prediction, text similarity calculation, and word emotional expression tasks compared to other state-of-the-art models.


Author(s):  
Peilian Zhao ◽  
Cunli Mao ◽  
Zhengtao Yu

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), a fine-grained task of opinion mining, which aims to extract sentiment of specific target from text, is an important task in many real-world applications, especially in the legal field. Therefore, in this paper, we study the problem of limitation of labeled training data required and ignorance of in-domain knowledge representation for End-to-End Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (E2E-ABSA) in legal field. We proposed a new method under deep learning framework, named Semi-ETEKGs, which applied E2E framework using knowledge graph (KG) embedding in legal field after data augmentation (DA). Specifically, we pre-trained the BERT embedding and in-domain KG embedding for unlabeled data and labeled data with case elements after DA, and then we put two embeddings into the E2E framework to classify the polarity of target-entity. Finally, we built a case-related dataset based on a popular benchmark for ABSA to prove the efficiency of Semi-ETEKGs, and experiments on case-related dataset from microblog comments show that our proposed model outperforms the other compared methods significantly.


Author(s):  
Noha Ali ◽  
Ahmed H. AbuEl-Atta ◽  
Hala H. Zayed

<span id="docs-internal-guid-cb130a3a-7fff-3e11-ae3d-ad2310e265f8"><span>Deep learning (DL) algorithms achieved state-of-the-art performance in computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing (NLP). In this paper, we enhance the convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm to classify cancer articles according to cancer hallmarks. The model implements a recent word embedding technique in the embedding layer. This technique uses the concept of distributed phrase representation and multi-word phrases embedding. The proposed model enhances the performance of the existing model used for biomedical text classification. The result of the proposed model overcomes the previous model by achieving an F-score equal to 83.87% using an unsupervised technique that trained on PubMed abstracts called PMC vectors (PMCVec) embedding. Also, we made another experiment on the same dataset using the recurrent neural network (RNN) algorithm with two different word embeddings Google news and PMCVec which achieving F-score equal to 74.9% and 76.26%, respectively.</span></span>


Author(s):  
Nan Xu ◽  
Wenji Mao ◽  
Guandan Chen

As a fundamental task of sentiment analysis, aspect-level sentiment analysis aims to identify the sentiment polarity of a specific aspect in the context. Previous work on aspect-level sentiment analysis is text-based. With the prevalence of multimodal user-generated content (e.g. text and image) on the Internet, multimodal sentiment analysis has attracted increasing research attention in recent years. In the context of aspect-level sentiment analysis, multimodal data are often more important than text-only data, and have various correlations including impacts that aspect brings to text and image as well as the interactions associated with text and image. However, there has not been any related work carried out so far at the intersection of aspect-level and multimodal sentiment analysis. To fill this gap, we are among the first to put forward the new task, aspect based multimodal sentiment analysis, and propose a novel Multi-Interactive Memory Network (MIMN) model for this task. Our model includes two interactive memory networks to supervise the textual and visual information with the given aspect, and learns not only the interactive influences between cross-modality data but also the self influences in single-modality data. We provide a new publicly available multimodal aspect-level sentiment dataset to evaluate our model, and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed model for this new task.


Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 374
Author(s):  
Babacar Gaye ◽  
Dezheng Zhang ◽  
Aziguli Wulamu

With the extensive availability of social media platforms, Twitter has become a significant tool for the acquisition of peoples’ views, opinions, attitudes, and emotions towards certain entities. Within this frame of reference, sentiment analysis of tweets has become one of the most fascinating research areas in the field of natural language processing. A variety of techniques have been devised for sentiment analysis, but there is still room for improvement where the accuracy and efficacy of the system are concerned. This study proposes a novel approach that exploits the advantages of the lexical dictionary, machine learning, and deep learning classifiers. We classified the tweets based on the sentiments extracted by TextBlob using a stacked ensemble of three long short-term memory (LSTM) as base classifiers and logistic regression (LR) as a meta classifier. The proposed model proved to be effective and time-saving since it does not require feature extraction, as LSTM extracts features without any human intervention. We also compared our proposed approach with conventional machine learning models such as logistic regression, AdaBoost, and random forest. We also included state-of-the-art deep learning models in comparison with the proposed model. Experiments were conducted on the sentiment140 dataset and were evaluated in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 Score. Empirical results showed that our proposed approach manifested state-of-the-art results by achieving an accuracy score of 99%.


2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-294
Author(s):  
M. Duraipandian ◽  
R. Vinothkanna

Customers post online product reviews based on their own experience. They may share their thoughts and comments on items on online shopping websites. The sentiment analysis comprises of opinion or idea process and process of sorting high rating reviews according to how well the product satisfies. Opinion mining is a technique for extracting useful data from large amounts of texts in order to use those to enhance or expand a company's operations. According to consumer evaluations, many of the goods aren't as good as they seem. It's common that buyers submit their thoughts on a product but then forget to rate it. The prior data preprocessing is more efficient to extract the features by CNN approach. This proposed methodology breaks down each user's rating prediction model into two parts: one based on the review text and other based on the user rating matrix with the help of CNN feature engineering. The goal of this study is to classify all reviews into ratings by SVM model. This proposed classification model provides good accuracy to predict the online reviews efficiently. For reviews without ratings, a further prediction of feelings is generated using multiple classifiers. The benefits of this proposed model are honed using helpfulness ratings from a small number of evaluations such as accuracy, F1 score, sensitivity, and precision. According to studies using the standard benchmark dataset, the accuracy of customized recommendation services, user happiness, and corporate trust may all be enhanced by including review helpfulness information in the recommender system.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luoyang Xue ◽  
Ang Xu ◽  
Qirong Mao ◽  
Lijian Gao ◽  
Jie Chen

Abstract Local information has significant contributions to visual sentiment analysis (VSA). Recent studies about local region discovery need manually annotate region location. Affective local information learning and automatic discovery of sentiment-specific region are still the challenges in VSA. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end VSA method for weakly supervised sentiment-specific region discovery. Our method contains two branches: an automatic sentiment-specific region discovery branch and a sentiment analysis branch. In the sentiment-specific region discovery branch, a region proposal network with multiple convolution kernels is proposed to generate candidate affective regions. Then, we design the multiple instance learning (MIL) loss to remove redundant and noisy candidate regions. Finally, the sentiment analysis branch integrates both holistic and localized information obtained in the first branch by feature map coupling for final sentiment classification. Our method automatically discovers sentiment-specific regions by the constraint of MIL loss function without object-level labels. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations on four benchmark affective datasets demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.


Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1336
Author(s):  
Gihyeon Choi ◽  
Shinhyeok Oh ◽  
Harksoo Kim

Previous researchers have considered sentiment analysis as a document classification task, in which input documents are classified into predefined sentiment classes. Although there are sentences in a document that support important evidences for sentiment analysis and sentences that do not, they have treated the document as a bag of sentences. In other words, they have not considered the importance of each sentence in the document. To effectively determine polarity of a document, each sentence in the document should be dealt with different degrees of importance. To address this problem, we propose a document-level sentence classification model based on deep neural networks, in which the importance degrees of sentences in documents are automatically determined through gate mechanisms. To verify our new sentiment analysis model, we conducted experiments using the sentiment datasets in the four different domains such as movie reviews, hotel reviews, restaurant reviews, and music reviews. In the experiments, the proposed model outperformed previous state-of-the-art models that do not consider importance differences of sentences in a document. The experimental results show that the importance of sentences should be considered in a document-level sentiment classification task.


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