Unrestricted Attention May Not Be All You Need–Masked Attention Mechanism Focuses Better on Relevant Parts in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) is one of the highly challenging tasks in natural language processing. It extracts fine-grained sentiment information in user-generated reviews, as it aims at predicting the polarities towards predefined aspect categories or relevant entities in free text. Prev...

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Main Authors: Ao Feng, Xuelei Zhang, Xinyu Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9676694/