{"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/modeling-sentiment-dependencies-with-graph","title":"Modeling Sentiment Dependencies with Graph Convolutional Networks for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification","arxiv_id":"1906.04501","date":"2019-06-11","proceeding":null,"authors":["Pinlong Zhaoa","Linlin Houb","Ou Wua"],"abstract":"Aspect-level sentiment classification aims to distinguish the sentiment polarities over one or more aspect terms in a sentence. Existing approaches mostly model different aspects in one sentence independently, which ignore the sentiment dependencies between different aspects. However, we find such dependency information between different aspects can bring additional valuable information. In this paper, we propose a novel aspect-level sentiment classification model based on graph convolutional networks (GCN) which can effectively capture the sentiment dependencies between multi-aspects in one sentence. Our model firstly introduces bidirectional attention mechanism with position encoding to model aspect-specific representations between each aspect and its context words, then employs GCN over the attention mechanism to capture the sentiment dependencies between different aspects in one sentence. We evaluate the proposed approach on the SemEval 2014 datasets. Experiments show that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. We also conduct experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of GCN module, which indicates that the dependencies between different aspects is highly helpful in aspect-level sentiment classification.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04501v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04501v1.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":"modeling-sentiment-dependencies-with-graph","repo_url":"https://github.com/Pinlong-Zhao/SDGCN","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"aspect-based-sentiment-analysis","task_name":"Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)"},{"task_slug":"classification-1","task_name":"Classification"},{"task_slug":"classification","task_name":"General Classification"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"},{"task_slug":"sentiment-analysis","task_name":"Sentiment Analysis"},{"task_slug":"sentiment-classification","task_name":"Sentiment Classification"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"gcn","method_name":"GCN"},{"method_slug":"graph-convolutional-networks","method_name":"Graph Convolutional Networks"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/aspect-based-sentiment-analysis-on-semeval","task":"Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)","dataset":"SemEval-2014 Task-4","model":"SDGCN-BERT","rank_in_archive_order":14,"of":48,"metrics":{"Laptop (Acc)":"81.35","Mean Acc (Restaurant + Laptop)":"82.46","Restaurant (Acc)":"83.57"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1906.04501","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}