Progressive Self-Supervised Attention Learning for Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results show that our proposed approach yields better attention mechanisms . dominant ASC models are mostly discriminative classifiers based on manual feature engineering . |
| Approach: | They propose a self-supervised approach to aspect-level sentiment classification that mines useful attention supervision information from a training corpus to refine attention mechanisms. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach yields better attention mechanisms on multiple datasets. |
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