Extracting hierarchical relationships of aspects from reviews

Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) attracts significant attention in recent years. Three elements of ABSA including aspect term, aspect, and domain (or entity) present a hierarchical relationships in e-commerce reviews. Extracting the hierarchical relationships can significantly enhance various applications, such as creating user profiles, identifying hierarchical topics, and visualizing review data. In this study, we proposed a framework to tackle this task, consisting of two primary components: a text adversarial autoencoder that efficiently encodes review content, and a deep network that extracts the clusters of aspect terms from review dataset and organizes them to a hierarchical structure using the Student-Teacher paradigm. Our framework also addresses the challenge of acquiring labeled training data by utilizing self-supervised learning. We evaluated the proposed framework on three public datasets and observed that it outperforms baseline models, indicating the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach.