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The significant advantage of Bi-GRU is the guaranteed symmetry of the hidden layer weight update, to take into account the context in online restaurant reviews and to obtain better results with fewer parameters, so we combined Word2vec, Bi-GRU, and Attention method to build a sentiment analysis model for online restaurant reviews. Restaurant reviews from Dianping.com were used to train and validate the model. With F1-score greater than 89%, we can conclude that the comprehensive performance of the Word2vec+Bi-GRU+Attention sentiment analysis model is better than the commonly used sentiment analysis models. 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