{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/combining-dynamic-local-context-focus-and","title":"Combining dynamic local context focus and dependency cluster attention for aspect-level sentiment classification","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2022-03-14","proceeding":"journal 2022 3","authors":["Mayi Xu","Biqing Zeng","Heng Yang","Junlong Chi","Jiatao Chen","Hongye Liu a"],"abstract":"Aspect-level sentiment classification (ASC), as a subtask of Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA), aims to analyze the sentiment polarity of different aspect terms in a sentence. Although the existing methods have been proven to be effective, they fail to effectively identify the range of local context and fully leverage the nonequivalent property of dependency relation. Hence, we propose a concept of dependency cluster and design two modules named Dynamic Local Context Focus (DLCF) and Dependency Cluster Attention (DCA) respectively. The DLCF can dynamically capture the range of local context based on the different max distance from the target aspect term to its context words and the DCA allows the model to pay more attention to the cluster which is more critical for sentiment classification. Together with the two modules, we then propose the DLCF-DCA model, in which the DLCF is equipped before DCA. Considering the DLCF has masked or weighted down the less-semantic-relative words, the semantic information can therefore be better extracted in DCA. Experiments conducted on six benchmark datasets demonstrate that DLCF-DCA achieves the state-of-the-art results. Moreover, the ablation experiment results also verify the effectiveness of each part in DLCF-DCA.","url_abs":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231221019391","url_pdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231221019391","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":"combining-dynamic-local-context-focus-and","repo_url":"https://github.com/2023-MindSpore-4/Code12/tree/main/zengbiqing/DLCF-DCA-Mindspore-master/DLCF-DCA_x2ms","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"mindspore","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"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":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"},{"task_slug":"sentiment-analysis","task_name":"Sentiment Analysis"},{"task_slug":"sentiment-classification","task_name":"Sentiment Classification"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}