{"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/target-sensitive-memory-networks-for-aspect","title":"Target-Sensitive Memory Networks for Aspect Sentiment Classification","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2018-07-01","proceeding":"ACL 2018 7","authors":["Shuai Wang","Sahisnu Mazumder","Bing Liu","Mianwei Zhou","Yi Chang"],"abstract":"Aspect sentiment classification (ASC) is a fundamental task in sentiment analysis. Given an aspect/target and a sentence, the task classifies the sentiment polarity expressed on the target in the sentence. Memory networks (MNs) have been used for this task recently and have achieved state-of-the-art results. In MNs, attention mechanism plays a crucial role in detecting the sentiment context for the given target. However, we found an important problem with the current MNs in performing the ASC task. Simply improving the attention mechanism will not solve it. The problem is referred to as target-sensitive sentiment, which means that the sentiment polarity of the (detected) context is dependent on the given target and it cannot be inferred from the context alone. To tackle this problem, we propose the target-sensitive memory networks (TMNs). Several alternative techniques are designed for the implementation of TMNs and their effectiveness is experimentally evaluated.","url_abs":"https://aclanthology.org/P18-1088","url_pdf":"https://aclanthology.org/P18-1088.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":[],"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":[],"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":"JCI (hops)","rank_in_archive_order":38,"of":48,"metrics":{"Laptop (Acc)":"71.79","Mean Acc (Restaurant + Laptop)":"75.29","Restaurant (Acc)":"78.79"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/aspect-based-sentiment-analysis-on-semeval","task":"Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)","dataset":"SemEval-2014 Task-4","model":"NP (hops)","rank_in_archive_order":41,"of":48,"metrics":{"Laptop (Acc)":"72.43","Mean Acc (Restaurant + Laptop)":"74.08","Restaurant (Acc)":"75.73"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}