Document-level Sentiment Analysis (DSA) is more challenging due to vague
semantic links and complicate sentiment information. Recent works have been
devoted to leveraging text summarization and have achieved promising results.
However, these summarization-based methods did not take full advantage of the
summary including ignoring the inherent interactions between the summary and
document. As a result, they limited the representation to express major points
in the document, which is highly indicative of the key sentiment. In this
paper, we study how to effectively generate a discriminative representation
with explicit subject patterns and sentiment contexts for DSA. A Hierarchical
Interaction Networks (HIN) is proposed to explore bidirectional interactions
between the summary and document at multiple granularities and learn
subject-oriented document representations for sentiment classification.
Furthermore, we design a Sentiment-based Rethinking mechanism (SR) by refining
the HIN with sentiment label information to learn a more sentiment-aware
document representation. We extensively evaluate our proposed models on three
public datasets. The experimental results consistently demonstrate the
effectiveness of our proposed models and show that HIN-SR outperforms various
state-of-the-art methods.Comment: 17 pages, accepted by ECML-PKDD 202