Affiliation:
1. Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi 923-1292, Ishikawa, Japan
Abstract
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a process to extract an aspect of a product from a customer review and identify its polarity. Most previous studies of ABSA focused on explicit aspects, but implicit aspects have not yet been the subject of much attention. This paper proposes a novel weakly supervised method for implicit aspect extraction, which is a task to classify a sentence into a pre-defined implicit aspect category. A dataset labeled with implicit aspects is automatically constructed from unlabeled sentences as follows. First, explicit sentences are obtained by extracting explicit aspects from unlabeled sentences, while sentences that do not contain explicit aspects are preserved as candidates of implicit sentences. Second, clustering is performed to merge the explicit and implicit sentences that share the same aspect. Third, the aspect of the explicit sentence is assigned to the implicit sentences in the same cluster as the implicit aspect label. Then, the BERT model is fine-tuned for implicit aspect extraction using the constructed dataset. The results of the experiments show that our method achieves 82% and 84% accuracy for mobile phone and PC reviews, respectively, which are 20 and 21 percentage points higher than the baseline.
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