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A Joint Training Dual-MRC Framework for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis

arXiv 2101.00816 ↗First posted 4 Jan 2021cs.CL cs.AIcited by 61

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Aspect based sentiment analysis (ABSA) involves three fundamental subtasks: aspect term extraction, opinion term extraction, and aspect-level sentiment classification. Early works only focused on solving one of these subtasks individually. Some recent work focused on solving a combination of two subtasks, e.g., extracting aspect terms along with sentiment polarities or extracting the aspect and opinion terms pair-wisely. More recently, the triple extraction task has been proposed, i.e., extracting the (aspect term, opinion term, sentiment polarity) triples from a sentence. However, previous approaches fail to solve all subtasks in a unified end-to-end framework. In this paper, we propose a complete solution for ABSA. We construct two machine reading comprehension (MRC) problems and solve all subtasks by joint training two BERT-MRC models with parameters sharing. We conduct experiments on these subtasks, and results on several benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework, which significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.

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  1. 2018BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understandingcited by 40,204
  2. 2019Knowing What, How and Why: A Near Complete Solution for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 123
  3. 2019Utilizing BERT for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Constructing Auxiliary Sentencecited by 121
  4. 2017Interactive Attention Networks for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classificationcited by 91
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  6. 2016Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Deep Memory Networkcited by 82
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  12. 2018Double Embeddings and CNN-based Sequence Labeling for Aspect Extractioncited by 42
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  1. 2018Aspect Term Extraction with History Attention and Selective Transformationcited by 37
  2. 2020Conditional Augmentation for Aspect Term Extraction via Masked Sequence-to-Sequence Generationcited by 27
  3. 2019Neural Aspect and Opinion Term Extraction with Mined Rules as Weak Supervisioncited by 25
  4. 2019Parameterized Convolutional Neural Networks for Aspect Level Sentiment Classificationcited by 22
  5. 2016A Hierarchical Model of Reviews for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 21
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  1. 2021Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generationcited by 99
  2. 2021A Unified Generative Framework for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 97
  3. 2022A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challengescited by 61
  4. 2021Paradigm Shift in Natural Language Processingcited by 39
  5. 2022Improving Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction via Template-Order Data Augmentationcited by 29
  6. 2021SentiPrompt: Sentiment Knowledge Enhanced Prompt-Tuning for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 23
  7. 2023InstructABSA: Instruction Learning for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 22
  8. 2021Seeking Common but Distinguishing Difference, A Joint Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Modelcited by 13
  9. 2024PanoSent: A Panoptic Sextuple Extraction Benchmark for Multimodal Conversational Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 13
  10. 2022A Span-level Bidirectional Network for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 12
  11. 2021Eliminating Sentiment Bias for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification with Unsupervised Opinion Extractioncited by 11
  12. 2021Unified Instance and Knowledge Alignment Pretraining for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 11
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  1. 2022UnifiedABSA: A Unified ABSA Framework Based on Multi-task Instruction Tuningcited by 9
  2. 2022PeerDA: Data Augmentation via Modeling Peer Relation for Span Identification Taskscited by 7
  3. 2023FSUIE: A Novel Fuzzy Span Mechanism for Universal Information Extractioncited by 7
  4. 2023DocMSU: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Document-level Multimodal Sarcasm Understandingcited by 7
  5. 2021A More Fine-Grained Aspect-Sentiment-Opinion Triplet Extraction Taskcited by 6
  6. 2021Deep Context- and Relation-Aware Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 6
  7. 2023The Limits of ChatGPT in Extracting Aspect-Category-Opinion-Sentiment Quadruples: A Comparative Analysiscited by 6
  8. 2023Easy-to-Hard Learning for Information Extractioncited by 5
  9. 2024MiniConGTS: A Near Ultimate Minimalist Contrastive Grid Tagging Scheme for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 5
  10. 2023SynGen: A Syntactic Plug-and-play Module for Generative Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 4
  11. 2023MEMD-ABSA: A Multi-Element Multi-Domain Dataset for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 4
  12. 2024It is Simple Sometimes: A Study On Improving Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Performancecited by 4
  13. 2024Evaluating Zero-Shot Multilingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Modelscited by 4
  14. 2023A Novel Counterfactual Data Augmentation Method for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 3
  15. 2024Self-Training with Pseudo-Label Scorer for Aspect Sentiment Quad Predictioncited by 3
  16. 2022Exploiting Unlabeled Data for Target-Oriented Opinion Words Extractioncited by 2
  17. 2023Measuring Your ASTE Models in The Wild: A Diversified Multi-domain Dataset For Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 2
  18. 2023A semantically enhanced dual encoder for aspect sentiment triplet extractioncited by 2
  19. 2023iACOS: Advancing Implicit Sentiment Extraction with Informative and Adaptive Negative Examplescited by 2
  20. 2024Let's Rectify Step by Step: Improving Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Diffusion Modelscited by 2
  21. 2024Dual Encoder: Exploiting the Potential of Syntactic and Semantic for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 2
  22. 2024Instruction Tuning with Retrieval-based Examples Ranking for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 2
  23. 2024ZZU-NLP at SIGHAN-2024 dimABSA Task: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Coarse-to-Fine In-context Learningcited by 2
  24. 2024Instruct-DeBERTa: A Hybrid Approach for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis on Textual Reviewscited by 2
  25. 2024PGSO: Prompt-based Generative Sequence Optimization Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 2
  26. 2022ECO v1: Towards Event-Centric Opinion Miningcited by 1
  27. 2022Syntax-Guided Domain Adaptation for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 1
  28. 2022A Better Choice: Entire-space Datasets for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 1
  29. 2024Exploiting Adaptive Contextual Masking for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 1
  30. 2024Rethinking ASTE: A Minimalist Tagging Scheme Alongside Contrastive Learningcited by 1
  31. 2024Revisiting Structured Sentiment Analysis as Latent Dependency Graph Parsingcited by 1
  32. 2024Enhancing Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis in Tourism Using Large Language Models and Positional Informationcited by 1
  33. 2024Joint Training for Selective Predictioncited by 1
  34. 2021Explicit Interaction Network for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 0
  35. 2021Human-in-the-Loop Disinformation Detection: Stance, Sentiment, or Something Else?cited by 0
  36. 2021Isomer: Transfer enhanced Dual-Channel Heterogeneous Dependency Attention Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Classificationcited by 0
  37. 2022Pretrained Language Encoders are Natural Tagging Frameworks for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 0
  38. 2022A Multi-turn Machine Reading Comprehension Framework with Rethink Mechanism for Emotion-Cause Pair Extractioncited by 0

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