Computer Science ›› 2026, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (2): 322-330.doi: 10.11896/jsjkx.250100061

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Method for Span-level Sentiment Triplet Extraction by Deeply Integrating Syntactic and Semantic
Features

CHANG Xuanwei1, DUAN Liguo1,2, CHEN Jiahao1, CUI Juanjuan1, LI Aiping1   

  1. 1 College of Computer Science and Technology(College of Data Science),Taiyuan University of Technology,Jinzhong,Shanxi 030600,China
    2 Shanxi University of Electronic Science and Technology,Linfen,Shanxi 041000,China
  • Received:2025-01-09 Revised:2025-04-29 Published:2026-02-10
  • About author:CHANG Xuanwei,born in 2002,postgraduate. His main research interest is sentiment analysis.
    DUAN Liguo,born in 1970,Ph.D,professor,master’s supervisor,is a senior member of CCF(No.15823S).His main research interest is natural language processing.
  • Supported by:
    Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province,China(202203021221234,202303021211052).

Abstract: Aspect sentiment triple extraction aims to extract aspects and their corresponding opinion words and sentiment polarities in the form of triples from sentences.Existing extraction models suffer from issues such as insufficient exploitation of syntactic and semantic information in sentences and incorrect identification of multi-word entity boundaries.To address these issues,this paper proposes a span extraction model that deeply integrates syntactic and semantic features(Span Extractor Incorporating Semantic and Syntax Features,SESS).SESS combines self-attention mechanisms with multi-channel graph convolutional networks to deeply explore the associations between syntactic and semantic features,enhancing the model’s ability to handle complex sentence structures and multi-word entities.Additionally,the model employs a span-based extraction method to extract aspect and opinion words,capturing the overall semantics of long entities and reducing sentiment inconsistency issues.The experiments conducted on the standard dataset ASTE-Data-V2 demonstrate that SESS outperforms the vast majority of comparison models in terms of F1 score,particularly in processing complex sentences and one-to-many,many-to-one sentiment relationships.Furthermore,ablation experiments and case analysis validate the effectiveness of each module of the model and its contribution to task performance,further proving the advancement and robustness of the proposed method.

Key words: Aspect sentiment triplet extraction, Graph convolutional network, Self-attention mechanism, Dependency syntactic relationship

CLC Number: 

  • TP391
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