Structure-Aware Review Mining and Summarization

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on object feature 1 based review summarization. Different from most of previous work with linguistic rules or statistical methods, we formulate the review mining task as a joint structure tagging problem. We propose a new machine learning framework based on Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). It can employ rich features to jointly extract positive opinions, negative opinions and object features for review sentences. The linguistic structure can be naturally integrated into model representation. Besides linear-chain structure, we also investigate conjunction structure and syntactic tree structure in this framework. Through extensive experiments on movie review and product review data sets, we show that structure-aware models outperform many state-of-the-art approaches to review mining. 1