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Targeted Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Embedding Commonsense Knowledge into an Attentive LSTM

1 Apr 2018The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18) 2018 4archive 2025-07-28

Yukun Ma, Haiyun Peng, Erik Cambria

Analyzing people’s opinions and sentiments towards certain aspects is an important task of natural language understanding. In this paper, we propose a novel solution to targeted aspect-based sentiment analysis, which tackles the challenges of both aspect-based sentiment analysis and targeted sentiment analysis by exploiting commonsense knowledge. We augment the long short-term memory (LSTM) network with a hierarchical attention mechanism consisting of a target level attention and a sentence-level attention. Commonsense knowledge of sentiment-related concepts is incorporated into the end-to-end training of a deep neural network for sentiment classification. In order to tightly integrate the commonsense knowledge into the recurrent encoder, we propose an extension of LSTM, termed Sentic LSTM. We conduct experiments on two publicly released datasets, which show that the combination of the proposed attention architecture and Sentic LSTM can outperform state-of-the-art methods in targeted aspect sentiment tasks.

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Aspect-Based Sentiment AnalysisAspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)Natural Language UnderstandingSentenceSentiment AnalysisSentiment Classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) Sentihood Sentic LSTM + TA + SA Aspect 78.18 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) Sentihood Sentic LSTM + TA + SA Sentiment 89.32 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report

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LSTMSigmoid ActivationTanh Activation

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