Zeyi Wen


2024

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Exploiting Careful Design of SVM Solution for Aspect-term Sentiment Analysis
Hanfeng Liu | Minping Chen | Zhenya Zheng | Zeyi Wen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024

Aspect-term sentiment analysis (ATSA) identifies fine-grained sentiments towards specific aspects of the text. While pre-trained language models (PLMs) have set the state-of-the-art (SOTA) for ATSA, they are resource-intensive due to their large model sizes, restricting their wide applications to resource-constrained scenarios. Conversely, conventional machine learning methods, such as Support Vector Machines (SVMs), offer the benefit of less resource requirement but have lower predictive accuracy. This paper introduces an innovative pipeline, termed SVM-ATSA, which bridges the gap between the accuracy of SVM-based methods and the efficiency of PLM-based methods. To improve the feature expression of SVMs and better adapt to the ATSA task, SVM-ATSA decomposes the learning problem into multiple view subproblems, and dynamically selects as well as constructs features with reinforcement learning. The experimental results demonstrate that SVM-ATSA surpasses SOTA PLM-based methods in predictive accuracy while maintaining a faster inference speed and significantly reducing the number of model parameters.