Bridging Cognition and Affect: Emotion-Aware Opinion Summarization using LLMs (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Emotion-aware Opinion Summarization (EAOS) is a framework that captures emotions that shape purchasing decisions. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates emotion into opinion summaries and a large-scale training dataset and an evaluation benchmark to support this task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework captures discrete emotions that shape purchasing decisions. |
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