Over the last decade, aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has been a rapidly growing field of natural language processing [1]. ABSA is a fine-grained sentiment analysis task which aims at detecting the polarity of an entity or an entity's attribute [2]. In ABSA, the aspect can be divided into two levels: aspect term (also called aspect target) and aspect category. An example sentence is provided in Fig. 1. For the sentence "Best Pastrami I ever had and great portion without being ridiculous, " the aspect terms are "Pastrami" and "portions, " respectively. Aspect categories are "FOOD#QUALITY" and "FOOD#STYLE_OPTIONS. " Obviously, a satisfactory method for an ABSA task should be applicable at both aspect levels. In the early days, traditional machine learning methods dominated as the method for an ABSA task, such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) [3]. However, these methods need feature engineering which is time consuming and laborious. Recently, deep learning methods have become increasingly popular for the sentiment analysis task, such as