Dataset and code for the paper: Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis Via Convolution over Dependency Tree. Kai Sun, Richong Zhang, Samuel Mensah, Yongyi Mao, Xudong Liu. EMNLP 2019. [pdf]
A dependency tree shortens the distance between the aspects and opinion words of a sentence, allowing neural network models to capture long-term syntactic dependencies effortlessly. Besides, dependency trees have graph-like structures bringing to play the recent class of neural networks, namely, graph convolutional networks (GCN). The GCN has been successful in learning representations for nodes, capturing the local position of nodes in the graph. These observations motivate us to develop a neural model which can operate on the dependency tree of a sentence, with the aim to make accurate sentiment predictions with respect to specific aspects. Specifically, a BiLSTM is first employed to capture the contexutual information for each word. Then the BiLSTM embeddings are enhanced by a multi-layer GCN over the dependency tree. The aspect-sepcific embeddings of the last GCN layer are extracted and used for final classification.
- Python 3.6.7
- PyTorch 1.2.0
- NumPy 1.17.2
- GloVe pre-trained word vectors:
- Download pre-trained word vectors here.
- Extract the glove.840B.300d.zip to the
dataset/glove/folder.
Training the model:
python train.py --dataset [dataset]Prepare vocabulary files for the dataset:
python prepare_vocab.py --dataset [dataset]If this work is helpful, please cite as:
@inproceedings{Sun2019CDT,
author = {Kai Sun and
Richong Zhang and
Samuel Mensah and
Yongyi Mao and
Xudong Liu},
title = {Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis Via Convolution over Dependency Tree},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on
Natural Language Processing, {EMNLP-IJCNLP} 2019, Hong Kong, China,
November 3-7, 2019},
pages = {5678--5687},
year = {2019}
}MIT