KEDGE: knowledge-enhanced dual-graph encoder for aspect-based sentiment analysis
摘要
Aspect-based sentiment analysis aims to infer the sentiment polarity associated with a given aspect term at a fine-grained level. However, many prior methods underutilize external knowledge and lack a principled mechanism for dynamically fusing semantic and syntactic representations. This work proposes KEDGE (Knowledge-Enhanced Dual-Graph Encoder), which jointly leverages Wiktionary definitions and SenticNet polarity to refine semantics and augment graph structure, while learning to fuse multi-view signals in a sample-conditional manner. Concretely, the model comprises three complementary components: (i) a contextual semantic branch that performs cross-knowledge interaction between sentence encodings and aspect-related definitional text, followed by self-attention and pooling to form a compact semantic representation; (ii) a position-aware syntactic branch that enriches the dependency graph with an aspect prior and SenticNet scores, then propagates features via multi-layer graph convolution with distance-aware masking, and a semantics-guided attention readout to form a structural representation; and (iii) a conditional dual-path fusion module that integrates a gated nonlinear interaction path with a lightweight mixture-of-experts path, using a top-level gate to adaptively arbitrate their contributions. We further calibrate affective priors by constructing