Challenge: Recent studies show impressive results on aspects-based sentiment analysis tasks.
Approach: They analyze the attentions and learned representations of BERT for aspects-based sentiment analysis tasks.
Outcome: The proposed model can be used for aspects-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) but it is not clear how it can provide important features for downstream tasks.

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