Topic Word Embedding-Based Methods for Automatically Extracting Main Aspects from Product Reviews

Abstract

Detecting the main aspects of a particular product from a collection of review documents is so challenging in real applications. To address this problem, we focus on utilizing existing topic models that can briefly summarize large text documents. Unlike existing approaches that are limited because of modifying any topic model or using seed opinion words as prior knowledge, we propose a novel approach of (1) identifying starting points for learning, (2) cleaning dirty topic results through word embedding and unsupervised clustering, and (3) automatically generating right aspects using topic and head word embedding. Experimental results show that the proposed methods create more clean topics, improving about 25% of Rouge–1, compared to the baseline method. In addition, through the proposed three methods, the main aspects suitable for given data are detected automatically.