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A Position-aware Bidirectional Attention Network for Aspect-level Sentiment Analysis
Shuqin Gu, Lipeng Zhang, Yuexian Hou, Yin Song
Aspect-level sentiment analysis aims to distinguish the sentiment polarity of each specific aspect term in a given sentence. Both industry and academia have realized the importance of the relationship between aspect term and sentence, and made attempts to model the relationship by designing a series of attention models. However, most existing methods usually neglect the fact that the position information is also crucial for identifying the sentiment polarity of the aspect term. When an aspect term occurs in a sentence, its neighboring words should be given more attention than other words with long distance. Therefore, we propose a position-aware bidirectional attention network (PBAN) based on bidirectional GRU. PBAN not only concentrates on the position information of aspect terms, but also mutually models the relation between aspect term and sentence by employing bidirectional attention mechanism. The experimental results on SemEval 2014 Datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed PBAN model.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) | SemEval-2014 Task-4 | PBAN | Laptop (Acc) | 74.12 | #31 of 48 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) | SemEval-2014 Task-4 | PBAN | Mean Acc (Restaurant + Laptop) | 77.64 | #31 of 48 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) | SemEval-2014 Task-4 | PBAN | Restaurant (Acc) | 81.16 | #31 of 48 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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