Jointly modeling aspects and opinions with a MaxEnt-LDA hybrid

  • Authors:
  • Wayne Xin Zhao;Jing Jiang;Hongfei Yan;Xiaoming Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Peking University, China;Singapore Management University, Singapore;Peking University, China;Peking University, China

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Discovering and summarizing opinions from online reviews is an important and challenging task. A commonly-adopted framework generates structured review summaries with aspects and opinions. Recently topic models have been used to identify meaningful review aspects, but existing topic models do not identify aspect-specific opinion words. In this paper, we propose a MaxEnt-LDA hybrid model to jointly discover both aspects and aspect-specific opinion words. We show that with a relatively small amount of training data, our model can effectively identify aspect and opinion words simultaneously. We also demonstrate the domain adaptability of our model.