Collaborative Computation Model Based on Dependency Types and Constituent Trees for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Aspect-based sentiment analysis(ABSA) is a fine-grained sentiment classification task that aims to identify the sentiment polarity of specific aspects in a sentence. Graph convolutional networks(GCN) have recently been widely applied for modeling the associations between aspects and opinion words. However, most studies treat the relationships between all words in the graph equally through dependency analysis, without considering their dependency types, which may lead to the inability to distinguish important relationships. On the other hand, dependency trees can only reveal relationships between words and cannot simulate complex sentence relationships, such as conditional, parallel, and contrast relationships, which are crucial for capturing more accurate sentiment relationships for different aspects. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a Collaborative computation model based on Dependency Types and Constituent trees(CDTC) for aspect-based sentiment analysis. Specifically, collaborative computation of dependency type graph convolutional networks and syntax encoders enhances task efficiency. Utilizing dependency types helps distinguish important relationships, while the phrase segmentation and hierarchical structure of constituent trees provide richer syntactic information. Extensive experiments conducted on three datasets demonstrate that our proposed CDTC model achieves state-of-the-art performance.