Papers with ABSA task
Towards Unifying the Label Space for Aspect- and Sentence-based Sentiment Analysis (2022.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to train ABSA model are limited by lack of annotated data . a dual-granularity pseudo labeling approach is proposed to solve this problem . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for aspect-based sentiment analysis that uses annotated data to train ABSA models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework surpasses previous methods on benchmarks. |
From Annotation to Adaptation: Metrics, Synthetic Data, and Aspect Extraction for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models (2025.naacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Using a synthetic sports feedback dataset, we evaluate open-weight LLMs’ ability to extract aspect-polarity pairs. |
| Approach: | They propose a metric to facilitate the evaluation of aspect extraction with generative models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed metric improves the performance of open-weight LLMs in the Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis task. |
METNet: A Mutual Enhanced Transformation Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for learning complex sentences with multiple aspects are ill-equipped to learn complex sentences . |
| Approach: | They propose a mutual enhanced transformation network for the ABSA task . it improves representation learning of the aspect with contextual semantic features . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves representation learning of the aspect with contextual semantic features, giving the aspect more abundant information. |
Adversarial Sample Generation for Aspect based Sentiment Classification (2022.findings-aacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to attack adversarial samples in natural language processing are ineffective . initial attacks perturb characters or words in sentences, resulting in grammatical incorrect or out-of-context sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose an attack algorithm that generates adversarial samples for a given aspect, maintaining more semantic coherency. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in perturbation ratio, success rate, and semantic coherence. |
Towards Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (2021.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on Aspect-based sentiment analysis ignores the rich label semantics of ABSA. |
| Approach: | They propose to tackle various ABSA tasks in a unified generative framework . they propose to use annotation-style and extraction-style modeling to enable training . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art on four ABSA tasks across multiple benchmark datasets. |
Self Question-answering: Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis by Role Flipped Machine Reading Comprehension (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | unified Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) aims to couple aspect terms with their corresponding opinion terms, which might make it easier to predict sentiment polarities. |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm to pair aspect terms with their corresponding opinion terms . they propose to use a machine learning paradigm to solve the unified ABSA task . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can solve the ABSA task without any additional data annotation or transformation. |
Aspect Is Not You Need: No-aspect Differential Sentiment Framework for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to classify aspects with aspect sentiment bias are hard to find . |
| Approach: | They propose a no-aspect differential sentiment framework for the ABSA task that eliminates aspect sentiment bias and uses differential sentiment loss instead of cross-entropy loss to better classify the sentiments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can be combined with almost all traditional ABSA methods. |
Does syntax matter? A strong baseline for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with RoBERTa (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained task in sentiment analysis. |
| Approach: | They compare a model with a dependency parser and a tree from a fine-tuned RoBERTa model to find the polarities for aspects in a sentence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the parser-provided tree on six datasets across four languages. |
To be Closer: Learning to Link up Aspects with Opinions (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Dependency parsers are not designed for capturing interaction between opinion words and aspect words. |
| Approach: | They propose to learn an aspect-centric tree structure to shorten distance between aspects and opinion words. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baselines on five aspect-based sentiment datasets. |
Relation-Aware Collaborative Learning for Unified Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies focus on one of three subtasks for aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) Existing work develops separate methods for each subtask, or takes OE as an auxiliary task of AE. |
| Approach: | They propose a relation-aware collaborative learning framework which allows subtasks to work coordinately via multi-task learning and relation propagation mechanisms. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets show that RACL outperforms state-of-the-art methods for ABSA. |
SSEGCN: Syntactic and Semantic Enhanced Graph Convolutional Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) aims to predict sentiment polarity towards aspects in sentences . a novel model for ABSA is proposed, but how to harness it is still a challenge . |
| Approach: | They propose a syntactic and semantic enhanced Graph Convolutional Network (SSEGCN) model for ABSA task using aspect-aware attention mechanism and self-attention. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets. |
Benchmark Creation for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Low-Resource Odia Language and Evaluation through Fine-Tuning of Multilingual Models (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Aspect-based sentiment analysis is underexplored in low-resource languages such as Odia . a dataset is annotated for two tasks: Aspect Term Extraction (ATE) and Aspect Polarity Classification (APC) |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset for aspect-based sentiment analysis in Odia . they use ensemble data augmentation and a fine-tuned paraphrase generation model . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset is annotated for two tasks: ATE and APC . the proposed dataset will spur more work for the ABSA task in Odia . |
Unified Feature and Instance Based Domain Adaptation for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to aspect-based sentiment analysis rely on labeled data, but they lack the fine-grained labeles needed for the ABSA task. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to perform feature adaptation and instance adaptation for the ABSA task . they learn domain-invariant feature representations by using part-of-speech features . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on the state-of-the-art in two aspects of the ABSA task. |
A Challenge Dataset and Effective Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing ABSA methods only use one aspect or multiple aspects with the same sentiment polarity . recent studies show that neural network methods can be trained end-to-end and automatically learn important features. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale multi-aspect multi-sentiment dataset with two different aspects with different sentiment polarities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art models on the large-scale dataset . it is based on a novel neural network approach that can be trained end-to-end . |
Cross-lingual Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis with Aspect Term Code-Switching (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) focus on English texts, but handling it in resource-poor languages remains a challenge. |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised cross-lingual transfer method for the Aspect-based sentiment analysis task . they propose an aspect code-switching mechanism to augment training data with code-linked bilingual sentences . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method preserves task-specific knowledge in the target language. |
A Large-Scale Japanese Dataset for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has not been explored in the Japanese language . there is no standard Japanese dataset available for ABSA task in the language - a paper by cnn. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Japanese aspect-based sentiment analysis dataset for hotel reviews domain . they propose to include 53,192 review sentences with seven aspect categories and two polarity labels . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains 53,192 review sentences with seven aspect categories and two polarity labels. |