title: Product Aspect Clustering by Incorporating Background Knowledge for Opinion Mining.
abstract: Product aspect recognition is a key task in fine-grained opinion mining. Current methods primarily focus on the extraction of aspects from the product reviews. However, it is also important to cluster synonymous extracted aspects into the same category. In this paper, we focus on the problem of product aspect clustering. The primary challenge is to properly cluster and generalize aspects that have similar meanings but different representations. To address this problem, we learn two types of background knowledge for each extracted aspect based on two types of effective aspect relations: relevant aspect relations and irrelevant aspect relations, which describe two different types of relationships between two aspects. Based on these two types of relationships, we can assign many relevant and irrelevant aspects into two different sets as the background knowledge to describe each product aspect. To obtain abundant background knowledge for each product aspect, we can enrich the available information with background knowledge from the Web. Then, we design a hierarchical clustering algorithm to cluster these aspects into different groups, in which aspect similarity is computed using the relevant and irrelevant aspect sets for each product aspect. Experimental results obtained in both camera and mobile phone domains demonstrate that the proposed product aspect clustering method based on two types of background knowledge performs better than the baseline approach without the use of background knowledge. Moreover, the experimental results also indicate that expanding the available background knowledge using the Web is feasible.
authors: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
authors: Yiheng
authors: Y
authors: Chen
authors: Department of Media Technology and Art, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
authors: Yanyan
authors: Y
authors: Zhao
authors: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
authors: Bing
authors: B
authors: Qin
authors: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
authors: Ting
authors: T
authors: Liu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results