Sentiment Analysis Pipeline for Product Aspect Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies face challenges in efficiently classifying user sentiment from vast and diverse customer reviews, which hinders the extraction of valuable product insights and user opinions.

Innovation Solution

An end-to-end pipeline is developed for product aspect detection and sentiment analysis, utilizing a gated-ROBERTa-based sentiment classifier and incorporating universal sentence encoding with hierarchical clustering to extract both explicit and implicit aspects, thereby improving sentiment analysis and aspect extraction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional sentiment classification methods are used, then the system is simpler to implement, but the accuracy and comprehensiveness of product information extraction deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesentiment classification accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the sentiment analysis process into multiple stages: (1) aspect extraction to identify product features, (2) sentiment classification to determine user attitude, and (3) hierarchy clustering to organize results. This segmentation allows each component to focus on specific tasks, improving overall accuracy while maintaining manageable complexity through modular design

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a hierarchical clustering dimension that organizes extracted aspects and sentiments into a structured taxonomy. This adds an organizational layer beyond simple classification, enabling the system to handle diverse product aspects systematically and improve comprehensiveness without proportionally increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Quantity of substance

If comprehensive aspect extraction is performed, then the comprehensiveness of product information improves, but the processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveamount of extracted product informationVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary aspect extraction before sentiment classification, pre-identifying potential product aspects from review text. This preliminary organization allows subsequent sentiment analysis to operate on structured data, reducing processing time while maintaining comprehensive information extraction through the hierarchical clustering framework

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If machine learning models are trained on diverse review data, then the adaptability to different products improves, but the difficulty of training and model optimization increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodel adaptability to different productsVSAvoidtraining difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The hierarchical clustering framework provides a universal structure that can accommodate diverse product aspects across different categories. The same clustering mechanism works for various products by organizing extracted aspects into hierarchical categories, enabling model adaptability without requiring product-specific training complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where extracted aspects and sentiments are used to refine the hierarchical structure and improve future extractions. This feedback loop allows the model to learn from diverse review data systematically, reducing training difficulty by providing clear guidance on what aspects and sentiments are most valuable for each product category

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250053747A1Classification of user sentiment based on machine learning
Publication Date: 2025.02.13 HOME DEPOT PRODUCT AUTHORITY LLC
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AI summary

A system and method for machine learning classification of user sentiment is disclosed. The method includes storing including a plurality of category information. The plurality of category information includes a set of domain-specific category information. The method further includes extracting a plurality of aspects from textual data. The method further includes generating a sentiment by a machine learning model. The method further includes receiving the plurality of aspects and the set of domain-specific category information. The method further includes generating a sentiment based on the plurality of aspects and the set of domain-specific category information.