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Attentional Encoder Network for Targeted Sentiment Classification

arXiv 1902.09314 ↗First posted 25 Feb 2019cs.CLcited by 48

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Abstract (arXiv)

Targeted sentiment classification aims at determining the sentimental tendency towards specific targets. Most of the previous approaches model context and target words with RNN and attention. However, RNNs are difficult to parallelize and truncated backpropagation through time brings difficulty in remembering long-term patterns. To address this issue, this paper proposes an Attentional Encoder Network (AEN) which eschews recurrence and employs attention based encoders for the modeling between context and target. We raise the label unreliability issue and introduce label smoothing regularization. We also apply pre-trained BERT to this task and obtain new state-of-the-art results. Experiments and analysis demonstrate the effectiveness and lightweight of our model.

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  7. 2021Graph Ensemble Learning over Multiple Dependency Trees for Aspect-level Sentiment Classificationcited by 13
  8. 2022A Contrastive Cross-Channel Data Augmentation Framework for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 12
  9. 2022METS-CoV: A Dataset of Medical Entity and Targeted Sentiment on COVID-19 Related Tweetscited by 12
  10. 2021Understand me, if you refer to Aspect Knowledge: Knowledge-aware Gated Recurrent Memory Networkcited by 11
  11. 2022BiSyn-GAT+: Bi-Syntax Aware Graph Attention Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 11
  12. 2022Incorporating Dynamic Semantics into Pre-Trained Language Model for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 10
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  2. 2022DigNet: Digging Clues from Local-Global Interactive Graph for Aspect-level Sentiment Classificationcited by 8
  3. 2021Reproducibility, Replicability and Beyond: Assessing Production Readiness of Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis in the Wildcited by 7
  4. 2021BERT4GCN: Using BERT Intermediate Layers to Augment GCN for Aspect-based Sentiment Classificationcited by 7
  5. 2022Towards Unifying the Label Space for Aspect- and Sentence-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 6
  6. 2021Enhanced Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Models with Progressive Self-supervised Attention Learningcited by 5
  7. 2022Neural Subgraph Explorer: Reducing Noisy Information via Target-Oriented Syntax Graph Pruningcited by 5
  8. 2022Enhancing Event-Level Sentiment Analysis with Structured Argumentscited by 5
  9. 2024Iterative Data Generation with Large Language Models for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 5
  10. 2022Please, Don't Forget the Difference and the Confidence Interval when Seeking for the State-of-the-Art Statuscited by 3
  11. 2023A Novel Counterfactual Data Augmentation Method for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 3
  12. 2024Enhancing Long-Range Dependency with State Space Model and Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 3
  13. 2021Re-Evaluating GermEval17 Using German Pre-Trained Language Modelscited by 2
  14. 2022Computational Sarcasm Analysis on Social Media: A Systematic Reviewcited by 2
  15. 2023Tell Model Where to Attend: Improving Interpretability of Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification via Small Explanation Annotationscited by 2
  16. 2023Aspect-oriented Opinion Alignment Network for Aspect-Based Sentiment Classificationcited by 2
  17. 2024Instruct-DeBERTa: A Hybrid Approach for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis on Textual Reviewscited by 2
  18. 2021Arabic aspect sentiment polarity classification using BERTcited by 1
  19. 2022Aspect-specific Context Modeling for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 1
  20. 2023Contrastive variational information bottleneck for aspect-based sentiment analysiscited by 1
  21. 2024Learning Intrinsic Dimension via Information Bottleneck for Explainable Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 1
  22. 2024Combining Objective and Subjective Perspectives for Political News Understandingcited by 1
  23. 2026Which Review Aspect Has a Greater Impact on the Duration of Open Peer Review in Multiple Rounds? -- Evidence from Nature Communicationscited by 1
  24. 2021Multi-hop Graph Convolutional Network with High-order Chebyshev Approximation for Text Reasoningcited by 0
  25. 2021Explicit Interaction Network for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 0
  26. 2023Dual-Attention Model for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classificationcited by 0
  27. 2023Joint Learning of Local and Global Features for Aspect-based Sentiment Classificationcited by 0
  28. 2023Syntactic Fusion: Enhancing Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis Through Multi-Tree Graph Integrationcited by 0
  29. 2023Syntax-Informed Interactive Model for Comprehensive Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 0
  30. 2023Exploiting Contextual Target Attributes for Target Sentiment Classificationcited by 0
  31. 2024Amplifying Aspect-Sentence Awareness: A Novel Approach for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 0
  32. 2024S2GSL: Incorporating Segment to Syntactic Enhanced Graph Structure Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 0
  33. 2025RGB-Phase Speckle: Cross-Scene Stereo 3D Reconstruction via Wrapped Pre-Normalizationcited by 0
  34. 2025AF-MAT: Aspect-aware Flip-and-Fuse xLSTM for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 0
  35. 2025Multi-refined Feature Enhanced Sentiment Analysis Using Contextual Instructioncited by 0
  36. 2026LASQ: A Low-resource Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple Extraction Datasetcited by 0