Content models with attitude

  • Authors:
  • Christina Sauper;Aria Haghighi;Regina Barzilay

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present a probabilistic topic model for jointly identifying properties and attributes of social media review snippets. Our model simultaneously learns a set of properties of a product and captures aggregate user sentiments towards these properties. This approach directly enables discovery of highly rated or inconsistent properties of a product. Our model admits an efficient variational mean-field inference algorithm which can be parallelized and run on large snippet collections. We evaluate our model on a large corpus of snippets from Yelp reviews to assess property and attribute prediction. We demonstrate that it outperforms applicable baselines by a considerable margin.