Interactive Learning Approach for Arabic Target-Based Sentiment Analysis

Husamelddin Balla, Marisa Llorens Salvador, Sarah Jane Delany


Abstract
Recently, the majority of sentiment analysis researchers focus on target-based sentiment analysis because it delivers in-depth analysis with more accurate results as compared to traditional sentiment analysis. In this paper, we propose an interactive learning approach to tackle a target-based sentiment analysis task for the Arabic language. The proposed IA-LSTM model uses an interactive attention-based mechanism to force the model to focus on different parts (targets) of a sentence. We investigate the ability to use targets, right, and left context, and model them separately to learn their own representations via interactive modeling. We evaluated our model on two different datasets: Arabic hotel review and Arabic book review datasets. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of using this interactive modeling technique for the Arabic target-based task. The model obtained accuracy values of 83.10 compared to SOTA models such as AB-LSTM-PC which obtained 82.60 for the same dataset.
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2021.ranlp-1.14
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021)
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September
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2021
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Held Online
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Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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111–120
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Husamelddin Balla, Marisa Llorens Salvador, and Sarah Jane Delany. 2021. Interactive Learning Approach for Arabic Target-Based Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021), pages 111–120, Held Online. INCOMA Ltd..
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