Product Attribute Extraction Based on Affinity Propagation Clustering Algorithm and Pointwise Mutual Information Pruning

Abstract

With the rapid development of e-commerce platforms, how to quickly sort out and summarize a large number of product reviews on e-commerce websites has become an urgent problem. Product attribute extraction is one of the methods to solve this problem. Automatic extraction of product attributes is one of the important research contents in the field of natural language processing. A product attribute extraction method based on affinity propagation clustering algorithm and pointwise mutual information pruning is proposed to extract product attributes comprehensively and rapidly. Firstly, candidate product attribute sets are obtained from the corpus according to predefined syntactic rules. Then, the candidate product attribute sets are represented by word vectors and calculating the similarity of attribute words to cluster the candidate attribute sets. Thus the candidate attribute clusters are obtained. At last, the effectiveness of the method is proved in a Chinese product review.