Structured Sentiment Analysis as Dependency Graph Parsing

Jeremy Barnes, Robin Kurtz, Stephan Oepen, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal


Abstract
Structured sentiment analysis attempts to extract full opinion tuples from a text, but over time this task has been subdivided into smaller and smaller sub-tasks, e.g., target extraction or targeted polarity classification. We argue that this division has become counterproductive and propose a new unified framework to remedy the situation. We cast the structured sentiment problem as dependency graph parsing, where the nodes are spans of sentiment holders, targets and expressions, and the arcs are the relations between them. We perform experiments on five datasets in four languages (English, Norwegian, Basque, and Catalan) and show that this approach leads to strong improvements over state-of-the-art baselines. Our analysis shows that refining the sentiment graphs with syntactic dependency information further improves results.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-long.263
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Venues:
ACL | IJCNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
3387–3402
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.263
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.263
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Cite (ACL):
Jeremy Barnes, Robin Kurtz, Stephan Oepen, Lilja Øvrelid, and Erik Velldal. 2021. Structured Sentiment Analysis as Dependency Graph Parsing. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 3387–3402, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Structured Sentiment Analysis as Dependency Graph Parsing (Barnes et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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Video:
 https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/2021.acl-long.263.mp4
Code
 jerbarnes/sentiment_graphs +  additional community code
Data
MPQA Opinion CorpusNoReC_fine