A Full List of Movie Aspect Terms for Movie Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis

By | December 2, 2020

Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) is often applied on amazon restaurants and laptops reviews. However, if you want to use movie reviews to implement aspect based sentiment analysis, you will find no aspect terms. In this tutorial, we will list some aspect terms in movie review dataset.

Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis

Here is the introduce:

https://alt.qcri.org/semeval2015/task12/

Here is an example:

aspect based sentiment analysis example

FOOD is the aspect term, we should predict the sentiment polarity of sentence a-g about FOOD.

Movie Review Dataset

There are some movie review dataset, for example: aclImdb, however, they are document-level review, not sentence-level with an aspect term.

A List of Movie Aspect Terms

We have collected some aspect terms on movie reivews from these two papers:

Viraj Parkhe, Bhaskar Biswas. Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis of Movie Reviews. International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence. 2014

movie aspect words used in papers

Tun et al.  Aspect-based sentiment analysis of movie reviews on discussion boards. Journal of Information Science. 2010, pp 1-26

Movie aspect and movie specific feature terms

List all of them, they are:

movie
film
picture
moving picture
motion picture
show
picture show
pic
flick
romantic comedy
act
acting
actress
actor
role
role playing
portray
character
villain
performance
performed
played
casting
cast
direct
direction
directing
director
filmed
filming
filmmaking
filmmaker
cinematic
edition
cinematography
storyline
story
tale
romance
dialog
script
storyteller
ending
storytelling
revenge
betrayal
plot
writing
twist
drama
scene
scenery
animation
violence
screenplay
action
special effect
stunt
visual
props
camera
graphic
lyric
sound
music
audio
musical
title track
sound effect
sound track
score
sound

There are 72 aspect terms.

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