Generating Complement Data for Aspect Term Extraction with GPT-2

Aspect Term Extraction (ATE) is the task of identifying the word(s) in a review text toward which the author express an opinion.A major challenges for ATE involve data scarcity that hinder the training of deep sequence taggers to identify rare targets.To overcome these issues, we propose a novel method to better exploit the available labeled data for ATE by computing effective complement sentences to augment the input data and facilitate the aspect term prediction.In particular, we introduce a multistep training procedure that first obtains optimal complement representations and sentences for training data with respect to a deep ATE model.Afterward, we fine-tune the generative language model GPT-2 to allow complement sentence generation at test data.The REIN-FORCE algorithm is employed to incorporate different expected properties into the reward function to perform the fine-tuning.We perform extensive experiments on the benchmark datasets to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed method that achieve the state-of-the-art performance on different datasets.