Global Inference for aspect and opinion terms co-extraction based on multi-task neural networks

Extracting aspect terms and opinion terms are two fundamental tasks in opinion mining. The recent success of deep learning has inspired various neural network architectures, which have been shown to achieve highly competitive performance in these two tasks. However, most existing methods fail to exp...

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Main Authors: YU, Jianfei, JIANG, Jing, XIA, Rui
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4159
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5163/viewcontent/Global_Inference_Aspect_Opinion_2018_afv.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
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Summary:Extracting aspect terms and opinion terms are two fundamental tasks in opinion mining. The recent success of deep learning has inspired various neural network architectures, which have been shown to achieve highly competitive performance in these two tasks. However, most existing methods fail to explicitly consider the syntactic relations among aspect terms and opinion terms, which may lead to the inconsistencies between the model predictions and the syntactic constraints. To this end, we first apply a multi-task learning framework to implicitly capture the relations between the two tasks, and then propose a global inference method by explicitly modelling several syntactic constraints among aspect term extraction and opinion term extraction to uncover their intra-task and inter-task relationship, which seeks an optimal solution over the neural predictions for both tasks. Extensive evaluations on three benchmark datasets demonstrate that our global inference approach is able to bring consistent improvements over several base models in different scenarios.