Interventional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Recent neural-based aspect-based sentiment analysis approaches, though achieving promising improvement on benchmark datasets, have reported suffering from poor robustness when encountering confounder such as non-target aspects. In this paper, we take a causal view to addressing this issue. We propose a simple yet effective method, namely, Sentiment Adjustment Figure 1: The causal graph of ABSA. We build our (SENTA), by applying a backdoor adjustment causal model over three main variables: target feature to disentangle those confounding factors. X, predictions Y and confounding factor C. Experimental results on the Aspect Robustness Our goal is to alleviate confounding factors, which is Test Set (ARTS) dataset demonstrate caused by X C, Y C. that our approach improves the performance while maintaining accuracy in the original test set