Abstract:Opinion retrieval is a hot topic in the research of natural language processing. Most existing approaches in text opinion retrieval can not extract knowledge and concept from context. They also lack opinion generalization ability and overlook the semantic relations between words. This paper proposes an opinion retrieval method based on knowledge graph conceptualization and network embedding. First, conceptual knowledge graph is used to conceptualize the queries and texts into the correct conceptual space while the nodes in the knowledge graph are embedded into low dimensional vectors space by network embedding technology. Then, the similarity between queries and texts is calculated based on embedding vectors. According to the similarity score, the opinion scores of texts can be captured based on statistical machine learning methods. Finally, the concept space, knowledge representation space, and opinion mining result serve opinion retrieval models. The experiment shows that the retrieval model proposed in this paper can effectively improve the retrieval performance of multiple retrieval models. Compared with referenced method based on unified opinion, the proposed approach improves the MAP scores by 6.1% and 9.3%, respectively. Compared with referenced method based on learning to rank, proposed approach improves the MAP scores by 2.3% and 14.6%, respectively.