Interactive Attention Networks for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification

Interactive Attention Networks for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification

Dehong Ma, Sujian Li, Xiaodong Zhang, Houfeng Wang

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 4068-4074. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/568

Aspect-level sentiment classification aims at identifying the sentiment polarity of specific target in its context. Previous approaches have realized the importance of targets in sentiment classification and developed various methods with the goal of precisely modeling thier contexts via generating target-specific representations. However, these studies always ignore the separate modeling of targets. In this paper, we argue that both targets and contexts deserve special treatment and need to be learned their own representations via interactive learning. Then, we propose the interactive attention networks (IAN) to interactively learn attentions in the contexts and targets, and generate the representations for targets and contexts separately. With this design, the IAN model can well represent a target and its collocative context, which is helpful to sentiment classification. Experimental results on SemEval 2014 Datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.
Keywords:
Natural Language Processing: Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing: Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining