An Efficient Aspect based Sentiment Analysis Model by the Hybrid Fusion of Speech and Text Aspects

Abstract

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) is treated to be a challenging task in the domain of speech, as it needs the fusion of acoustic features and Linguistic features for information retrieval and decision making. The existing studies in speech are limited to speech and emotion recognition. The main objective of this work is to combine acoustic features in speech with linguistic features in text for ABSA. A deep learning and language model is implemented for acoustic feature extraction in speech. Different variants of text feature extraction techniques are used for aspect extraction in text. Trained Lexicons, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model, Rule based approach and Efficient Named Entity Recognition (E-NER) guided dependency parsing approach has been used for aspect extraction. Sentiment with respect to the extracted aspect is analyzed using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. The experimental results of the proposed model proved the effectiveness of hybrid level fusion by yielding improved results of 5.7% WER and 3% CER when compared with the traditional baseline individual linguistic and acoustic feature models.