EMNLP 2022main25 citations

Sentiment-Aware Word and Sentence Level Pre-training for Sentiment Analysis

Shuai Fan, Chen Lin, Haonan Li, Zhenghao Lin, Jinsong Su, Hang Zhang, Yeyun Gong, JIan Guo

Abstract

Most existing pre-trained language representation models (PLMs) are sub-optimal in sentiment analysis tasks, as they capture the sentiment information from word-level while under-considering sentence-level information. In this paper, we propose SentiWSP, a novel Sentiment-aware pre-trained language model with combined Word-level and Sentence-level Pre-training tasks.The word level pre-training task detects replaced sentiment words, via a generator-discriminator framework, to enhance the PLM’s knowledge about sentiment words.The sentence level pre-training task further strengthens the discriminator via a contrastive learning framework, with similar sentences as negative samples, to encode sentiments in a sentence.Extensive experimental results show that SentiWSP achieves new state-of-the-art performance on various sentence-level and aspect-level sentiment classification benchmarks. We have made our code and model publicly available at https://github.com/XMUDM/SentiWSP.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{fan-etal-2022-sentiment,
    title = "Sentiment-Aware Word and Sentence Level Pre-training for Sentiment Analysis",
    author = "Fan, Shuai  and
      Lin, Chen  and
      Li, Haonan  and
      Lin, Zhenghao  and
      Su, Jinsong  and
      Zhang, Hang  and
      Gong, Yeyun  and
      Guo, JIan  and
      Duan, Nan",
    editor = "Goldberg, Yoav  and
      Kozareva, Zornitsa  and
      Zhang, Yue",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.332/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.332",
    pages = "4984--4994"
}
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