Aspect’s extraction is a critical task in aspect-based sentiment analysis,including explicit and implicit aspects identification.While extensive research has identified explicit aspects,little effort has been put for...Aspect’s extraction is a critical task in aspect-based sentiment analysis,including explicit and implicit aspects identification.While extensive research has identified explicit aspects,little effort has been put forward on implicit aspects extraction due to the complexity of the problem.Moreover,existing research on implicit aspect identification is widely carried out on product reviews targeting specific aspects while neglecting sentences’dependency problems.Therefore,in this paper,a multi-level knowledge engineering approach for identifying implicit movie aspects is proposed.The proposed method first identifies explicit aspects using a variant of BiLSTM and CRF(Bidirectional Long Short Memory-Conditional Random Field),which serve as a memory to process dependent sentences to infer implicit aspects.It can identify implicit aspects from four types of sentences,including independent and three types of dependent sentences.The study is evaluated on a largemovie reviews dataset with 50k examples.The experimental results showed that the explicit aspect identification method achieved 89%F1-score and implicit aspect extraction methods achieved 76%F1-score.In addition,the proposed approach also performs better than the state-of-the-art techniques(NMFIAD andML-KB+)on the product review dataset,where it achieved 93%precision,92%recall,and 93%F1-score.展开更多
文摘Aspect’s extraction is a critical task in aspect-based sentiment analysis,including explicit and implicit aspects identification.While extensive research has identified explicit aspects,little effort has been put forward on implicit aspects extraction due to the complexity of the problem.Moreover,existing research on implicit aspect identification is widely carried out on product reviews targeting specific aspects while neglecting sentences’dependency problems.Therefore,in this paper,a multi-level knowledge engineering approach for identifying implicit movie aspects is proposed.The proposed method first identifies explicit aspects using a variant of BiLSTM and CRF(Bidirectional Long Short Memory-Conditional Random Field),which serve as a memory to process dependent sentences to infer implicit aspects.It can identify implicit aspects from four types of sentences,including independent and three types of dependent sentences.The study is evaluated on a largemovie reviews dataset with 50k examples.The experimental results showed that the explicit aspect identification method achieved 89%F1-score and implicit aspect extraction methods achieved 76%F1-score.In addition,the proposed approach also performs better than the state-of-the-art techniques(NMFIAD andML-KB+)on the product review dataset,where it achieved 93%precision,92%recall,and 93%F1-score.
