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Syntax-Aware Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Graph Attention Networks

Computation and Language 2019-09-09 v1

Abstract

Aspect level sentiment classification aims to identify the sentiment expressed towards an aspect given a context sentence. Previous neural network based methods largely ignore the syntax structure in one sentence. In this paper, we propose a novel target-dependent graph attention network (TD-GAT) for aspect level sentiment classification, which explicitly utilizes the dependency relationship among words. Using the dependency graph, it propagates sentiment features directly from the syntactic context of an aspect target. In our experiments, we show our method outperforms multiple baselines with GloVe embeddings. We also demonstrate that using BERT representations further substantially boosts the performance.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02606,
  title  = {Syntax-Aware Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Graph Attention Networks},
  author = {Binxuan Huang and Kathleen M. Carley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02606},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Accepted by EMNLP 2019

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