Title
SK-GCN: Modeling Syntax and Knowledge via Graph Convolutional Network for aspect-level sentiment classification
Abstract
Aspect-level sentiment classification is a fundamental subtask of fine-grained sentiment analysis. The syntactic information and commonsense knowledge are important and useful for aspect-level sentiment classification, while only a limited number of studies have explored to incorporate them via flexible graph convolutional neural networks (GCN) for this task. In this paper, we propose a new Syntax- and Knowledge-based Graph Convolutional Network (SK-GCN) model for aspect-level sentiment classification, which leverages the syntactic dependency tree and commonsense knowledge via GCN. In particular, to enhance the representation of the sentence toward the given aspect, we develop two strategies to model the syntactic dependency tree and commonsense knowledge graph, namely SK-GCN1 and SK-GCN2 respectively. SK-GCN1 models the dependency tree and knowledge graph via Syntax-based GCN (S-GCN) and Knowledge-based GCN (K-GCN) independently, and SK-GCN2 models them jointly. We also apply pre-trained BERT to this task and obtain new state-of-the-art results. Extensive experiments on five benchmark datasets demonstrate that our approach can effectively improve the performance of aspect-level sentiment classification compared with the state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.knosys.2020.106292
Knowledge-Based Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Aspect-level,Sentiment analysis,Graph Convolutional Network (GCN),Commonsense knowledge graph
Journal
205
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0950-7051
8
0.57
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jie Zhou12103190.17
Xiangji Huang21551159.34
Qinmin Vivian Hu3206.06
Liang He43616.68