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A Multi-task Learning Model for Chinese-oriented Aspect Polarity Classification and Aspect Term Extraction

17 Dec 2019arXiv:1912.07976archive 2025-07-28

Heng Yang, Biqing Zeng, JianHao Yang, Youwei Song, Ruyang Xu

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) task is a multi-grained task of natural language processing and consists of two subtasks: aspect term extraction (ATE) and aspect polarity classification (APC). Most of the existing work focuses on the subtask of aspect term polarity inferring and ignores the significance of aspect term extraction. Besides, the existing researches do not pay attention to the research of the Chinese-oriented ABSA task. Based on the local context focus (LCF) mechanism, this paper firstly proposes a multi-task learning model for Chinese-oriented aspect-based sentiment analysis, namely LCF-ATEPC. Compared with existing models, this model equips the capability of extracting aspect term and inferring aspect term polarity synchronously, moreover, this model is effective to analyze both Chinese and English comments simultaneously and the experiment on a multilingual mixed dataset proved its availability. By integrating the domain-adapted BERT model, the LCF-ATEPC model achieved the state-of-the-art performance of aspect term extraction and aspect polarity classification in four Chinese review datasets. Besides, the experimental results on the most commonly used SemEval-2014 task4 Restaurant and Laptop datasets outperform the state-of-the-art performance on the ATE and APC subtask.

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Aspect-Based Sentiment AnalysisAspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)General ClassificationMulti-Task LearningSentiment AnalysisTerm Extraction

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) SemEval-2014 Task-4 LCF-ATEPC Laptop (Acc) 82.29 #5 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) SemEval-2014 Task-4 LCF-ATEPC Mean Acc (Restaurant + Laptop) 86.24 #5 of 48 Archive leaderboard report
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) SemEval-2014 Task-4 LCF-ATEPC Restaurant (Acc) 90.18 #5 of 48 Archive leaderboard report

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