  Multimodal aspect-based sentiment analysis (MABSA) aims to extract aspects
from text-image pairs and recognize their sentiments. Existing methods make
great efforts to align the whole image to corresponding aspects. However,
different regions of the image may relate to different aspects in the same
sentence, and coarsely establishing image-aspect alignment will introduce noise
to aspect-based sentiment analysis (i.e., visual noise). Besides, the sentiment
of a specific aspect can also be interfered by descriptions of other aspects
(i.e., textual noise). Considering the aforementioned noises, this paper
proposes an Aspect-oriented Method (AoM) to detect aspect-relevant semantic and
sentiment information. Specifically, an aspect-aware attention module is
designed to simultaneously select textual tokens and image blocks that are
semantically related to the aspects. To accurately aggregate sentiment
information, we explicitly introduce sentiment embedding into AoM, and use a
graph convolutional network to model the vision-text and text-text interaction.
Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of AoM to existing methods.
The source code is publicly released at https://github.com/SilyRab/AoM.
