UFAL at SemEval-2016 Task 5: Recurrent Neural Networks for Sentence Classification

This paper describes our system for aspectbased sentiment analysis (ABSA). We participate in Subtask 1 (sentence-level ABSA), focusing specifically on aspect category detection. We train a binary classifier for each category. This year’s addition of multiple languages makes language-independent approaches attractive. We propose to utilize neural networks which should be capable of discovering linguistic patterns in the data automatically, thereby reducing the need for language-specific tools and feature engineering.