Among various natural language process tasks, sentiment analysis has always been a research hotspot. From the initial sentence-level and document-level coarse-grained sentiment analysis to recent fine-grained sentiment analysis on the aspect word level, researchers are committed to applying diverse methods to obtain better sentiment analysis results, ranging from lexicon-based, statistical machine learning methods to deep learning models. In the change of technology, several benchmark datasets that can be used for model performance comparison are gradually yielded. This article summarizes the current research status of aspect-level text sentiment analysis from multiple dimensions such as dataset, mainstream methods, and evaluation indicators, finally, it puts forward the challenges facing and potential research directions from a unique perspective.
Recently, text style transfer has become a very hot research topic in the field of natural language processing. However, the conventional text style transfer is unidirectional, and it is not possible to obtain a model with multidirectional transformations through training once. To address this limitation, we propose a new task called multidirectional text style transfer. It aims to use a single model to transfer the underlying style of text among multiple style attributes and keep its main content unchanged. In this paper, we propose Unified Generative Adversarial Networks (UGAN), a practical approach that combines target vector and generative adversarial techniques to perform multidirectional text style transfer. Our model allows simultaneous training of multi-attribute data on a single network. Such unified structure makes our model more efficient and flexible than existing approaches. We demonstrate the superiority of our approach on three benchmark datasets. Experimental results show that our method not only outperforms other baselines, but also reduces training time by an average of 13%. INDEX TERMS Multidirectional text style transfer, generative adversarial networks, unified generative adversarial networks.
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