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In aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA), many neural models are equipped with an attention mechanism to quantify the contribution of each context word to sentiment prediction. However, such a mechanism suffers from one drawback: only a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Jinsong Su , Jialong Tang , Hui Jiang , Ziyao Lu , Yubin Ge , Linfeng Song , Deyi Xiong , Le Sun , Jiebo Luo

Aspect-based sentiment classification (ASC) is an important task in fine-grained sentiment analysis.~Deep supervised ASC approaches typically model this task as a pair-wise classification task that takes an aspect and a sentence containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Hu Xu , Bing Liu , Lei Shu , Philip S. Yu

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a challenging task of extracting sentiments along with their corresponding aspects and opinion terms from the text. The inherent subjectivity of span annotation makes variability in the surface…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Soyoung Yang , Hojun Cho , Jiyoung Lee , Sohee Yoon , Edward Choi , Jaegul Choo , Won Ik Cho

Aspect sentiment classification (ASC) aims at determining sentiments expressed towards different aspects in a sentence. While state-of-the-art ASC models have achieved remarkable performance, they are recently shown to suffer from the issue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Fang Ma , Chen Zhang , Dawei Song

While a lot of research in explainable AI focuses on producing effective explanations, less work is devoted to the question of how people understand and interpret the explanation. In this work, we focus on this question through a study of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Hendrik Schuff , Alon Jacovi , Heike Adel , Yoav Goldberg , Ngoc Thang Vu

Classification of textual data in terms of sentiment, or more nuanced sociopsychological markers (e.g., agency), is now a popular approach commonly applied at the sentence level. In this paper, we exploit the integrated gradient (IG) method…

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Current methods for the interpretability of discriminative deep neural networks commonly rely on the model's input-gradients, i.e., the gradients of the output logits w.r.t. the inputs. The common assumption is that these input-gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Suraj Srinivas , Francois Fleuret

Introducing Entity-Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (EASTE), a novel Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) task which extends Target-Aspect-Sentiment Detection (TASD) by separating aspect categories (e.g., food#quality) into pre-defined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Vorakit Vorakitphan , Milos Basic , Guilhaume Leroy Meline

Recent neural-based aspect-based sentiment analysis approaches, though achieving promising improvement on benchmark datasets, have reported suffering from poor robustness when encountering confounder such as non-target aspects. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Zhen Bi , Ningyu Zhang , Ganqiang Ye , Haiyang Yu , Xi Chen , Huajun Chen

For multiple aspects scenario of aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA), existing approaches typically ignore inter-aspect relations or rely on temporal dependencies to process aspect-aware representations of all aspects in a sentence.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Jinchao Zhang , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) involves identifying sentiment towards specific aspect terms in a sentence and allows us to uncover nuanced perspectives and attitudes on particular aspects of a product, service, or topic. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Lingling Xu , Haoran Xie , S. Joe Qin , Fu Lee Wang , Xiaohui Tao

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) aims to predict fine-grained sentiments of comments with respect to given aspect terms or categories. In previous ABSA methods, the importance of aspect has been realized and verified. Most existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Bowen Xing , Lejian Liao , Dandan Song , Jingang Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Heyan Huang

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) aims to determine sentiment polarity toward specific aspects in text. Existing methods enrich semantic and syntactic representations through external knowledge or GNNs, but the growing diversity of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xinran Li , Xiaowei Zhao , Yubo Zhu , Zhiheng Zhang , Zhiqi Huang , Hongkun Song , Jinglu Hu , Xinze Che , Yifan Lyu , Yong Zhou , Xiujuan Xu

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) predicts sentiment polarity towards a specific aspect in the given sentence. While pre-trained language models such as BERT have achieved great success, incorporating dynamic semantic changes into ABSA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Kai Zhang , Kun Zhang , Mengdi Zhang , Hongke Zhao , Qi Liu , Wei Wu , Enhong Chen

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) provides a fine-grained understanding of opinions by linking sentiment to specific aspects in text. While transformer-based models excel at this task, their black-box nature limits their…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-24 Luisa Stracqualursi , Patrizia Agati

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained sentiment analysis task that aims to align aspects and corresponding sentiments for aspect-specific sentiment polarity inference. It is challenging because a sentence may contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Shuo Liang , Wei Wei , Xian-Ling Mao , Fei Wang , Zhiyong He

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained opinion mining approach that identifies and classifies opinions associated with specific entities (aspects) or their categories within a sentence. Despite its rapid growth and broad…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yan Cathy Hua , Paul Denny , Jörg Wicker , Katerina Taškova

In aspect-level sentiment classification (ASC), it is prevalent to equip dominant neural models with attention mechanisms, for the sake of acquiring the importance of each context word on the given aspect. However, such a mechanism tends to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Jialong Tang , Ziyao Lu , Jinsong Su , Yubin Ge , Linfeng Song , Le Sun , Jiebo Luo

Though notable progress has been made, neural-based aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) models are prone to learn spurious correlations from annotation biases, resulting in poor robustness on adversarial data transformations. Among the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jialong Wu , Linhai Zhang , Deyu Zhou , Guoqiang Xu

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) in natural language processing enables organizations to understand customer opinions on specific product aspects. While deep learning models are widely used for English ABSA, their application in…

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