The advent of the Internet has caused a significant growth in the number of opinions expressed about products or services on e-commerce websites. Aspect category detection, which is one of the challenging subtasks of aspect-based sentiment analysis, deals with categorizing a given review sentence into a set of predefined categories. Most of the research efforts in this field are devoted to English language reviews, while there are a large number of reviews in other languages that are left unexplored. In this paper, we propose a multilingual method to perform aspect category detection on reviews in different languages, which makes use of a deep convolutional neural network with multilingual word embeddings. To the best of our knowledge, our method is the first attempt at performing aspect category detection on multiple languages simultaneously. Empirical results on the multilingual dataset provided by SemEval workshop demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method1.
Aspect category detection is one of the important and challenging subtasks of aspect-based sentiment analysis. Given a set of pre-defined categories, this task aims to detect categories which are indicated implicitly or explicitly in a given review sentence. Supervised machine learning approaches perform well to accomplish this subtask. Note that, the performance of these methods depends on the availability of labeled train data, which is often difficult and costly to obtain. Besides, most of these supervised methods require feature engineering to perform well. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised method to address aspect category detection task without the need for any feature engineering. Our method utilizes clusters of unlabeled reviews and soft cosine similarity measure to accomplish aspect category detection task. 1 Experimental results on SemEval-2014 restaurant dataset shows that proposed unsupervised approach outperforms several baselines by a substantial margin.
This paper presents our system entitled 'LIIR' for SemEval-2020 Task 12 on Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2). We have participated in sub-task A for English, Danish, Greek, Arabic, and Turkish languages. We adapt and fine-tune the BERT and Multilingual Bert models made available by Google AI 1 for English and non-English languages respectively. For the English language, we use a combination of two fine-tuned BERT models.For other languages we propose a cross-lingual augmentation approach in order to enrich training data and we use Multilingual BERT to obtain sentence representations. LIIR achieved rank 14/38, 18/47, 24/86, 24/54, and 25/40 in Greek, Turkish, English, Arabic, and Danish languages, respectively.
This paper presents our system entitled 'LIIR' for SemEval-2020 Task 12 on Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2). We have participated in Subtask A for English, Danish, Greek, Arabic, and Turkish languages. We adapt and fine-tune the BERT and multilingual Bert models made available by Google AI 1 for English and non-English languages respectively. For the English language, we use a combination of two fine-tuned BERT models. For other languages, we propose a cross-lingual augmentation approach in order to enrich training data and we use multilingual BERT to obtain sentence representations. LIIR achieved rank 14/38, 18/47, 24/86, 24/54, and 25/40 in Greek, Turkish, English, Arabic, and Danish languages, respectively.
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