Hybrid node‐based tensor graph convolutional network for aspect‐category sentiment classification of microblog comments

Abstract

SummaryAspect‐category sentiment classification of microblog comments aims to identify the sentiment polarity of different opinion aspects in microblog comments, which is meaningful for the analysis of public opinion. At present, most of aspect‐category sentiment classification methods need much annotation data, and regard comments as independent samples, without using of the relationship between comments. This article proposes an aspect‐category sentiment classification method based on tensor graph convolutional networks. First, the combination of a comment and its aspect category is regarded as a hybrid node, and the original representation of a hybrid node is encoded by the Bert model. Second, sentiment graph and semantic graph are constructed according to the semantic similarity and sentimental relevance between hybrid nodes, and they are stacked into a tensor. Then two convolution operations, including intra‐graph convolution and inter‐graph convolution, are performed for each layer of graph tensor. In this way, hybrid nodes can learn and merge the heterogeneous information of different graphs. Finally, under the supervision of few labeled comments, the sentiment classification can be completed based on the features of the hybrid nodes. Experimental results on two microblog datasets show that the proposed model can significantly improve the performance of sentiment classification compared with other baseline models.