# Various Approaches to Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01984 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.01984/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 5 May 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.14266/) (2022)
- [Arabic aspect sentiment polarity classification using BERT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.13290/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The problem of aspect-based sentiment analysis deals with classifying sentiments (negative, neutral, positive) for a given aspect in a sentence. A traditional sentiment classification task involves treating the entire sentence as a text document and classifying sentiments based on all the words. Let us assume, we have a sentence such as "the acceleration of this car is fast, but the reliability is horrible". This can be a difficult sentence because it has two aspects with conflicting sentiments about the same entity. Considering machine learning techniques (or deep learning), how do we encode the information that we are interested in one aspect and its sentiment but not the other? Let us explore various pre-processing steps, features, and methods used to facilitate in solving this task.