Beta Distribution Guided Aspect-aware Graph for Aspect Category Sentiment Analysis with Affective Knowledge
Bin Liang, Hang Su, Rongdi Yin, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Qin Zhao, Xiaoqi Yu, Ruifeng Xu
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the Aspect Category Sentiment Analysis (ACSA) task from a novel perspective by exploring a Beta Distribution guided aspect-aware graph construction based on external knowledge. That is, we are no longer entangled about how to laboriously search the sentiment clues for coarse-grained aspects from the context, but how to preferably find the words highly related to the aspects in the context and determine their importance based on the public knowledge base. In this way, the contextual sentiment clues can be explicitly tracked in ACSA for the aspects in the light of these aspect-related words. To be specific, we first regard each aspect as a pivot to derive aspect-aware words that are highly related to the aspect from external affective commonsense knowledge. Then, we employ Beta Distribution to educe the aspect-aware weight, which reflects the importance to the aspect, for each aspect-aware word. Afterward, the aspect-aware words are served as the substitutes of the coarse-grained aspect to construct graphs for leveraging the aspect-related contextual sentiment dependencies in ACSA. Experiments on 6 benchmark datasets show that our approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art baseline methods.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.emnlp-main.19
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Editors:
- Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 208–218
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.19
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.19
- Cite (ACL):
- Bin Liang, Hang Su, Rongdi Yin, Lin Gui, Min Yang, Qin Zhao, Xiaoqi Yu, and Ruifeng Xu. 2021. Beta Distribution Guided Aspect-aware Graph for Aspect Category Sentiment Analysis with Affective Knowledge. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 208–218, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Beta Distribution Guided Aspect-aware Graph for Aspect Category Sentiment Analysis with Affective Knowledge (Liang et al., EMNLP 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/improve-issue-templates/2021.emnlp-main.19.pdf
- Code
- binliang-nlp/aagcn-acsa + additional community code
- Data
- ConceptNet