Attention-based LSTM for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification

Attention-based LSTM for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification

November 1-5, 2016 | Yequan Wang and Minlie Huang and Li Zhao* and Xiaoyan Zhu
This paper proposes an attention-based LSTM model for aspect-level sentiment classification. Aspect-level sentiment classification is a fine-grained task in sentiment analysis that determines the sentiment of a sentence with respect to a specific aspect. The paper argues that the sentiment polarity of a sentence is not only determined by its content but also by the aspect it is being evaluated against. For example, the sentence "The appetizers are ok, but the service is slow." has a positive sentiment for the aspect "taste" and a negative sentiment for the aspect "service." To address this, the authors propose an attention-based LSTM model that can focus on different parts of a sentence when different aspects are considered. The model uses an aspect-to-sentence attention mechanism that allows it to concentrate on the key parts of a sentence relevant to a specific aspect. The model is evaluated on the SemEval 2014 dataset and achieves state-of-the-art performance in aspect-level sentiment classification. The paper also discusses related work in sentiment classification, including traditional methods that rely on manually designed features and neural network approaches that have shown promise in various NLP tasks. However, these methods have not been widely applied to aspect-level sentiment classification due to the complexity of the task. The authors propose two ways to incorporate aspect information into the model: one is to concatenate the aspect vector into the sentence hidden representations for computing attention weights, and another is to append the aspect vector into the input word vectors. The model is trained using backpropagation and the cross-entropy loss function. The results show that the attention mechanism is effective in capturing the important parts of a sentence for aspect-level sentiment classification. The paper also includes qualitative analysis and case studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of the model in capturing the sentiment of sentences with different aspects. The model is able to handle negation words and long, complex sentences, which are challenging for traditional models. The authors conclude that their model is effective for aspect-level sentiment classification and suggest future work on modeling multiple aspects simultaneously.This paper proposes an attention-based LSTM model for aspect-level sentiment classification. Aspect-level sentiment classification is a fine-grained task in sentiment analysis that determines the sentiment of a sentence with respect to a specific aspect. The paper argues that the sentiment polarity of a sentence is not only determined by its content but also by the aspect it is being evaluated against. For example, the sentence "The appetizers are ok, but the service is slow." has a positive sentiment for the aspect "taste" and a negative sentiment for the aspect "service." To address this, the authors propose an attention-based LSTM model that can focus on different parts of a sentence when different aspects are considered. The model uses an aspect-to-sentence attention mechanism that allows it to concentrate on the key parts of a sentence relevant to a specific aspect. The model is evaluated on the SemEval 2014 dataset and achieves state-of-the-art performance in aspect-level sentiment classification. The paper also discusses related work in sentiment classification, including traditional methods that rely on manually designed features and neural network approaches that have shown promise in various NLP tasks. However, these methods have not been widely applied to aspect-level sentiment classification due to the complexity of the task. The authors propose two ways to incorporate aspect information into the model: one is to concatenate the aspect vector into the sentence hidden representations for computing attention weights, and another is to append the aspect vector into the input word vectors. The model is trained using backpropagation and the cross-entropy loss function. The results show that the attention mechanism is effective in capturing the important parts of a sentence for aspect-level sentiment classification. The paper also includes qualitative analysis and case studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of the model in capturing the sentiment of sentences with different aspects. The model is able to handle negation words and long, complex sentences, which are challenging for traditional models. The authors conclude that their model is effective for aspect-level sentiment classification and suggest future work on modeling multiple aspects simultaneously.
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