Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Aspect based sentiments can provide more detailed information about the sentiment (positive, negative, and neutral) based on an aspect in a review. It can provide better recommendations to users in decision making process. A number of previous studies have been conducted on aspect-based sentiment analysis indicating that survey is needed to provide an overview of the method available in aspect-based sentiment analysis. The survey method has been implemented since the last 5 years to obtain novelty from existing methods. The Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method is used to review a collection of 34 papers from various academic databases which focus on the aspect of extraction, sentiment analysis, and aspect aggregation. The papers will be sorted based on the focus of the method used. For each analysis, a detailed analysis is described on the contribution of the method to the aspect-based sentiment analysis alongside a comparison with other methods as well as advantages and disadvantages. The last section discusses the method commonly used in this study as well as future challenges in the study focusing on aspect-based sentiment analysis.