Target-Sensitive Memory Networks for Aspect Sentiment Classification
Shuai Wang, Sahisnu Mazumder, Bing Liu, Mianwei Zhou, Yi Chang
Abstract
Aspect sentiment classification (ASC) is a fundamental task in sentiment analysis. Given an aspect/target and a sentence, the task classifies the sentiment polarity expressed on the target in the sentence. Memory networks (MNs) have been used for this task recently and have achieved state-of-the-art results. In MNs, attention mechanism plays a crucial role in detecting the sentiment context for the given target. However, we found an important problem with the current MNs in performing the ASC task. Simply improving the attention mechanism will not solve it. The problem is referred to as target-sensitive sentiment, which means that the sentiment polarity of the (detected) context is dependent on the given target and it cannot be inferred from the context alone. To tackle this problem, we propose the target-sensitive memory networks (TMNs). Several alternative techniques are designed for the implementation of TMNs and their effectiveness is experimentally evaluated.- Anthology ID:
- P18-1088
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Editors:
- Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 957–967
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P18-1088
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P18-1088
- Cite (ACL):
- Shuai Wang, Sahisnu Mazumder, Bing Liu, Mianwei Zhou, and Yi Chang. 2018. Target-Sensitive Memory Networks for Aspect Sentiment Classification. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 957–967, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Target-Sensitive Memory Networks for Aspect Sentiment Classification (Wang et al., ACL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/teach-a-man-to-fish/P18-1088.pdf
- Data
- SemEval-2014 Task-4