Bidirectional GRU for targeted aspect-based sentiment analysis based on character-enhanced token-embedding and multi-level attention

Esther Irawati Setiawan*, Ferry Ferry, Joan Santoso, Surya Sumpeno, Kimiya Fujisawa, Mauridhi Hery Purnomo*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The user's feedback on healthcare services is usually based on ratings from post-service questionnaires. However, in order to get a clear view of the user's perspective, online text reviews need to be analyzed. We combined targeted and aspect-based sentiment analysis by multi-level attention to get a specific user sentiment on a target of an aspect. The multi-level attention consists of Target-level and Sentence-level attention. Our proposed framework is based on Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit. Bi-GRU is commonly known to have comparable results compared to LSTM while having lesser computational complexity. We also utilized Bidirectional LSTM based Character-Enhanced Token-Embedding to handle out of vocabulary words and misspelling to avoid error in detecting sentiment. We created a dataset of online healthcare reviews from 2018-2020, targeting the name of the hospital or department, with ten aspects: cleanliness, cost, doctor, food, nurse, parking, receptionist and billing, safety, test and examination, and waiting time. To improve the results of our proposed method, we calculated polarity weight to handle imbalanced aspects in the dataset. We classified these reviews into three polarities, which are positive, negative, and neutral. Based on our experiments, we achieved the best F1-Score of 88%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)392-407
Number of pages16
JournalInternational Journal of Intelligent Engineering and Systems
Volume13
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2020

Keywords

  • Bidirectional GRU
  • Character-enhanced token-embedding
  • Multi-level attention
  • Targeted aspect-based sentiment analysis

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