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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