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Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has been extensively studied in recent years, which typically involves four fundamental sentiment elements, including the aspect category, aspect term, opinion term, and sentiment polarity. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Wenxuan Zhang , Yang Deng , Xin Li , Yifei Yuan , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) extracts aspect-level sentiment signals from user-generated text, supports product analytics, experience monitoring, and public-opinion tracking, and is central to fine-grained opinion mining. A key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Shidong He , Haoyu Wang , Wenjie Luo

Sentiment analysis (SA) systems are widely deployed in many of the world's languages, and there is well-documented evidence of demographic bias in these systems. In languages beyond English, scarcer training data is often supplemented with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Björn Ross , Adam Lopez

With the increase of online customer opinions in specialised websites and social networks, the necessity of automatic systems to help to organise and classify customer reviews by domain-specific aspect/categories and sentiment polarity is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Aitor García-Pablos , Montse Cuadros , German Rigau

Joint extraction of aspects and sentiments can be effectively formulated as a sequence labeling problem. However, such formulation hinders the effectiveness of supervised methods due to the lack of annotated sequence data in many domains.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Zheng Li , Xin Li , Ying Wei , Lidong Bing , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

The generative aspect model is an extension of the multinomial model for text that allows word probabilities to vary stochastically across documents. Previous results with aspect models have been promising, but hindered by the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Thomas P. Minka , John Lafferty

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) is a sentiment analysis task at fine-grained level. Recently, generative frameworks have attracted increasing attention in ABSA due to their ability to unify subtasks and their continuity to upstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Chengze Yu , Taiqiang Wu , Jiayi Li , Xingyu Bai , Yujiu Yang

Sentiment polarity classification is perhaps the most widely studied topic. It classifies an opinionated document as expressing a positive or negative opinion. In this paper, using movie review dataset, we perform a comparative study with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Zitao Liu

We introduce InstructABSA, an instruction learning paradigm for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) subtasks. Our method introduces positive, negative, and neutral examples to each training sample, and instruction tune the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Kevin Scaria , Himanshu Gupta , Siddharth Goyal , Saurabh Arjun Sawant , Swaroop Mishra , Chitta Baral

Aspect-based sentiment analysis enhances sentiment detection by associating it with specific aspects, offering deeper insights than traditional sentiment analysis. This study introduces a manually annotated dataset of 10,814 multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Oleg Silcenco , Marcos R. Machad , Wallace C. Ugulino , Daniel Braun

Sentiment analysis (SA) systems are used in many products and hundreds of languages. Gender and racial biases are well-studied in English SA systems, but understudied in other languages, with few resources for such studies. To remedy this,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Adam Lopez , Roi Blanco , Diego Marcheggiani

Recent empirical studies show that adversarial topic models (ATM) can successfully capture semantic patterns of the document by differentiating a document with another dissimilar sample. However, utilizing that discriminative-generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Thong Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu

This paper presents a series of approaches aimed at enhancing the performance of Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) by utilizing extracted semantic information from a Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) model. We propose a novel end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Pavel Přibáň , Ondřej Pražák

The advancement of aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has urged the lack of a user-friendly framework that can largely lower the difficulty of reproducing state-of-the-art ABSA performance, especially for beginners. To meet the demand,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Heng Yang , Chen Zhang , Ke Li

Opinion mining from customer reviews has become pervasive in recent years. Sentences in reviews, however, are usually classified independently, even though they form part of a review's argumentative structure. Intuitively, sentences in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Sebastian Ruder , Parsa Ghaffari , John G. Breslin

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) generally requires a deep understanding of the contextual information, including the words associated with the aspect terms and their syntactic dependencies. Most existing studies employ advanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuanhe Tian , Xu Li , Wei Wang , Guoqing Jin , Pengsen Cheng , Yan Song

The state-of-the-art solutions for Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis (ALSA) were built on a variety of deep neural networks (DNN), whose efficacy depends on large amounts of accurately labeled training data. Unfortunately, high-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Yanyan Wang , Qun Chen , Jiquan Shen , Boyi Hou , Murtadha Ahmed , Zhanhuai Li

Identification of user's opinions from natural language text has become an exciting field of research due to its growing applications in the real world. The research field is known as sentiment analysis and classification, where aspect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Milad Vazan , Jafar Razmara

While there is significant interest in using generative AI tools as general-purpose models for specific ML applications, discriminative models are much more widely deployed currently. One of the key shortcomings of these discriminative AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Son The Nguyen , Theja Tulabandhula , Mary Beth Watson-Manheim

Aspect-level sentiment classification aims to identify the sentiment expressed towards some aspects given context sentences. In this paper, we introduce an attention-over-attention (AOA) neural network for aspect level sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Binxuan Huang , Yanglan Ou , Kathleen M. Carley