Challenge: Existing aspects-based sentiment classification models lack a mechanism to account for relevant syntactical constraints and word dependencies.
Approach: They propose to build a Graph Convolutional Network over the dependency tree of a sentence to exploit syntactical information and word dependencies.
Outcome: The proposed model is comparable to state-of-the-art models on three benchmarking collections.

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