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This task is usually done in a pipeline manner, with aspect term extraction performed first, followed by sentiment predictions toward the extracted aspect terms. While easier to develop, such an approach does not fully exploit joint information from the two subtasks and does not use all available sources of training information that might be helpful, such as document-level labeled sentiment corpus. In this paper, we propose an interactive multi-task learning network (IMN) which is able to jointly learn multiple related tasks simultaneously at both the token level as well as the document level. Unlike conventional multi-task learning methods that rely on learning common features for the different tasks, IMN introduces a message passing architecture where information is iteratively passed to different tasks through a shared set of latent variables. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance of the proposed method against multiple baselines on three benchmark datasets.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06906v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.06906v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"an-interactive-multi-task-learning-network","repo_url":"https://github.com/lixin4ever/E2E-TBSA","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"an-interactive-multi-task-learning-network","repo_url":"https://github.com/ruidan/IMN-E2E-ABSA","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"Apache-2.0"}},{"paper_slug":"an-interactive-multi-task-learning-network","repo_url":"https://github.com/lixin4ever/BERT-E2E-ABSA","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"Apache-2.0"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"aspect-term-extraction-and-sentiment","task_name":"Aspect Term Extraction and Sentiment Classification"},{"task_slug":"aspect-based-sentiment-analysis-1","task_name":"Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis"},{"task_slug":"aspect-based-sentiment-analysis","task_name":"Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)"},{"task_slug":"multi-task-learning","task_name":"Multi-Task Learning"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"},{"task_slug":"sentiment-analysis","task_name":"Sentiment Analysis"},{"task_slug":"term-extraction","task_name":"Term Extraction"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/aspect-term-extraction-and-sentiment","task":"Aspect Term Extraction and Sentiment Classification","dataset":"SemEval","model":"IMN-BERT","rank_in_archive_order":6,"of":6,"metrics":{"Avg F1":"64.23","Laptop 2014 (F1)":"61.73","Restaurant 2014 (F1)":"70.72","Restaurant 2015 (F1)":"60.22"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/aspect-based-sentiment-analysis-on-semeval-5","task":"Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)","dataset":"SemEval 2014 Task 4 Laptop","model":"IMN","rank_in_archive_order":7,"of":9,"metrics":{"F1":"58.37"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/aspect-based-sentiment-analysis-on-semeval-6","task":"Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)","dataset":"SemEval 2014 Task 4 Subtask 1+2","model":"IMN","rank_in_archive_order":9,"of":10,"metrics":{"F1":"58.37"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/aspect-based-sentiment-analysis-on-semeval","task":"Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)","dataset":"SemEval-2014 Task-4","model":"IMN","rank_in_archive_order":21,"of":48,"metrics":{"Laptop (Acc)":"75.36","Mean Acc (Restaurant + Laptop)":"79.63","Restaurant (Acc)":"83.89"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/sentiment-analysis-on-semeval-2014-task-4","task":"Sentiment Analysis","dataset":"SemEval 2014 Task 4 Subtask 1+2","model":"IMN","rank_in_archive_order":7,"of":8,"metrics":{"F1":"58.37"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1906.06906","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}