As shown in Table TABREF39 , the proposed framework consistently obtains the best scores on all of the four datasets. Compared with the winning systems of SemEval ABSA, our framework achieves 5.0%, 1.6%, 1.4%, 1.3% absolute gains on INLINEFORM0 , INLINEFORM1 , INLINEFORM2 and INLINEFORM3 respectively.

Our framework can outperform RNCRF, a state-of-the-art model based on dependency parsing, on all datasets. We also notice that RNCRF does not perform well on INLINEFORM0 and INLINEFORM1 (3.7% and 3.9% inferior than ours). We find that INLINEFORM2 and INLINEFORM3 contain many informal reviews, thus RNCRF's performance degradation is probably due to the errors from the dependency parser when processing such informal texts. 
 Question: By how much do they outperform state-of-the-art methods?
Compared with the winning systems of SemEval ABSA, our framework achieves 5.0%, 1.6%, 1.4%, 1.3% absolute gains on INLINEFORM0 , INLINEFORM1 , INLINEFORM2 and INLINEFORM3 respectively.