Joint Aspect and Polarity Classification for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with End-to-End Neural Networks

Martin Schmitt, Simon Steinheber, Konrad Schreiber, Benjamin Roth


Abstract
In this work, we propose a new model for aspect-based sentiment analysis. In contrast to previous approaches, we jointly model the detection of aspects and the classification of their polarity in an end-to-end trainable neural network. We conduct experiments with different neural architectures and word representations on the recent GermEval 2017 dataset. We were able to show considerable performance gains by using the joint modeling approach in all settings compared to pipeline approaches. The combination of a convolutional neural network and fasttext embeddings outperformed the best submission of the shared task in 2017, establishing a new state of the art.
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D18-1139
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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October-November
Year:
2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
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EMNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1109–1114
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https://aclanthology.org/D18-1139
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1139
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Martin Schmitt, Simon Steinheber, Konrad Schreiber, and Benjamin Roth. 2018. Joint Aspect and Polarity Classification for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with End-to-End Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1109–1114, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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