Leveraging Large Data with Weak Supervision for Joint Feature and Opinion Word Extraction

Product feature and opinion word extraction is very important for fine granular sentiment analysis. In this paper, we leverage large-scale unlabeled data for joint extraction of feature and opinion words under a knowledge poor setting, in which only a few feature-opinion pairs are utilized as weak supervision. Our major contributions are two-fold: first, we propose a data-driven approach to represent product features and opinion words as a list of corpus-level syntactic relations, which captures rich language structures; second, we build a simple yet robust unsupervised model with prior knowledge incorporated to extract new feature and opinion words, which obtains high performance robustly. The extraction process is based upon a bootstrapping framework which, to some extent, reduces error propagation under large data. Experimental results under various settings compared with state-of-the-art baselines demonstrate that our method is effective and promising.