提出可解释的组合方法,统一分析焦点与情感。
Evaluating Compositional Approaches for Focus and Sentiment Analysis
- 基于依存句法规则构建组合分析框架
- 在焦点与情感任务上准确率优于传统启发式方法
- 适合需要可解释性的自然语言分析场景
本文总结了对语言学中焦点分析(FA)与自然语言处理中情感分析(SA)的组合方法的评估结果。尽管在情感分析领域已有大量关于组合与非组合方法的定量研究,但在处理如"it was John who left"这类强调表达的焦点分析领域,此类量化评估极为罕见。本文通过论证情感分析中的组合规则同样适用于焦点分析(因二者语义密切相关,情感分析是焦点分析的一部分),填补了该研究空白。所提出的组合方法利用英语中通用依存标注(UDs)的形式化语法规则,包括修饰、并列和否定等,作用于情感词典中的词汇以实现分析。相较于非组合方法,该方法具有更强的可解释性。实验对比了该方法与使用简单启发式规则处理否定、并列和修饰的VADER方法,在更合适的测试集上进行评估。本研究还进一步将情感分析中的组合成果推广至焦点分析领域。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper summarizes the results of evaluating a compositional approach for Focus Analysis (FA) in Linguistics and Sentiment Analysis (SA) in Natural Language Processing (NLP). While quantitative evaluations of compositional and non-compositional approaches in SA exist in NLP, similar quantitative evaluations are very rare in FA in Linguistics that deal with linguistic expressions representing focus or emphasis such as "it was John who left". We fill this gap in research by arguing that compositional rules in SA also apply to FA because FA and SA are closely related meaning that SA is part of FA. Our compositional approach in SA exploits basic syntactic rules such as rules of modification, coordination, and negation represented in the formalism of Universal Dependencies (UDs) in English and applied to words representing sentiments from sentiment dictionaries. Some of the advantages of our compositional analysis method for SA in contrast to non-compositional analysis methods are interpretability and explainability. We test the accuracy of our compositional approach and compare it with a non-compositional approach VADER that uses simple heuristic rules to deal with negation, coordination and modification. In contrast to previous related work that evaluates compositionality in SA on long reviews, this study uses more appropriate datasets to evaluate compositionality. In addition, we generalize the results of compositional approaches in SA to compositional approaches in FA.
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