Jingjing Wang
2020
Aspect Sentiment Classification with Document-level Sentiment Preference Modeling
Xiao Chen
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Changlong Sun
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Jingjing Wang
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Shoushan Li
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Luo Si
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Min Zhang
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Guodong Zhou
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
In the literature, existing studies always consider Aspect Sentiment Classification (ASC) as an independent sentence-level classification problem aspect by aspect, which largely ignore the document-level sentiment preference information, though obviously such information is crucial for alleviating the information deficiency problem in ASC. In this paper, we explore two kinds of sentiment preference information inside a document, i.e., contextual sentiment consistency w.r.t. the same aspect (namely intra-aspect sentiment consistency) and contextual sentiment tendency w.r.t. all the related aspects (namely inter-aspect sentiment tendency). On the basis, we propose a Cooperative Graph Attention Networks (CoGAN) approach for cooperatively learning the aspect-related sentence representation. Specifically, two graph attention networks are leveraged to model above two kinds of document-level sentiment preference information respectively, followed by an interactive mechanism to integrate the two-fold preference. Detailed evaluation demonstrates the great advantage of the proposed approach to ASC over the state-of-the-art baselines. This justifies the importance of the document-level sentiment preference information to ASC and the effectiveness of our approach capturing such information.
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- Xiao Chen 1
- Changlong Sun 1
- Shoushan Li 1
- Luo Si 1
- Min Zhang 1
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