Context-Guided and Syntactic Augmented Dual Graph Convolutional Network for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Predicting the sentiment polarity of aspect terms in sentences is the goal of Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis(ABSA) task. Graph Convolutional Network(GCN) is used in majority of the ABSA task due to its ability to effectively capture the dependencies among words or entities within sentences. However, it may not work as expected when some sentences have no obvious syntactic structure. To alleviate this issue, we propose a Context-guided and Syntactic Augmented Dual Graph Convolutional Network(CSADGCN) model for the ABSA task. Specifically, we propose a context-guided attention mechanism that captures both global and local information by combining self-attention and aspect-level attention, even though some sentences have no obvious syntactic structure. In addition,we augment the GCN with multiple linguistic features and utilize a biaffine attention module to capture the relationship between words. On three datasets, extensive experimental modifications reveal that our CSADGCN model performs better than the most recent baseline approach.