Weakly-Supervised Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Joint Aspect-Sentiment Topic Embedding (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for aspect-based sentiment analysis of review text use only a few keywords describing each aspect/sentiment without using any labeled examples. |
| Approach: | They propose a weakly-supervised approach for aspect-based sentiment analysis which uses only a few keywords describing each aspect/sentiment without using any labeled examples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates quality joint topics and outperforms baselines significantly on benchmark datasets. |
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