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Summarizing Opinions: Aspect Extraction Meets Sentiment Prediction and They Are Both Weakly Supervised

arXiv 1808.08858 ↗First posted 27 Aug 2018cs.CL cs.AI cs.LGcited by 75

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We present a neural framework for opinion summarization from online product reviews which is knowledge-lean and only requires light supervision (e.g., in the form of product domain labels and user-provided ratings). Our method combines two weakly supervised components to identify salient opinions and form extractive summaries from multiple reviews: an aspect extractor trained under a multi-task objective, and a sentiment predictor based on multiple instance learning. We introduce an opinion summarization dataset that includes a training set of product reviews from six diverse domains and human-annotated development and test sets with gold standard aspect annotations, salience labels, and opinion summaries. Automatic evaluation shows significant improvements over baselines, and a large-scale study indicates that our opinion summaries are preferred by human judges according to multiple criteria.

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  1. 2024RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrievalcited by 532
  2. 2021Can We Automate Scientific Reviewing?cited by 63
  3. 2021Aspect-Controllable Opinion Summarizationcited by 47
  4. 2022Prompted Opinion Summarization with GPT-3.5cited by 44
  5. 2021ASPECTNEWS: Aspect-Oriented Summarization of News Documentscited by 37
  6. 2025ArchRAG: Attributed Community-based Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Generationcited by 28
  7. 2022NEWTS: A Corpus for News Topic-Focused Summarizationcited by 27
  8. 2024Position: Measure Dataset Diversity, Don't Just Claim Itcited by 26
  9. 2021Learning Opinion Summarizers by Selecting Informative Reviewscited by 25
  10. 2022OASum: Large-Scale Open Domain Aspect-based Summarizationcited by 24
  11. 2022HIBRIDS: Attention with Hierarchical Biases for Structure-aware Long Document Summarizationcited by 23
  12. 2022EntSUM: A Data Set for Entity-Centric Summarizationcited by 22
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  1. 2021Convex Aggregation for Opinion Summarizationcited by 21
  2. 2021Self-Supervised Multimodal Opinion Summarizationcited by 18
  3. 2021Comparative Opinion Summarization via Collaborative Decodingcited by 18
  4. 2023Controllable Text Summarization: Unraveling Challenges, Approaches, and Prospects -- A Surveycited by 18
  5. 2022Unsupervised Extractive Opinion Summarization Using Sparse Codingcited by 17
  6. 2022Efficient Few-Shot Fine-Tuning for Opinion Summarizationcited by 16
  7. 2023OpenAsp: A Benchmark for Multi-document Open Aspect-based Summarizationcited by 15
  8. 2021Unsupervised Abstractive Opinion Summarization by Generating Sentences with Tree-Structured Topic Guidancecited by 14
  9. 2023Scientific Opinion Summarization: Paper Meta-review Generation Dataset, Methods, and Evaluationcited by 14
  10. 2023Examining Bias in Opinion Summarisation Through the Perspective of Opinion Diversitycited by 14
  11. 2023OpinSummEval: Revisiting Automated Evaluation for Opinion Summarizationcited by 13
  12. 2023Do Multi-Document Summarization Models Synthesize?cited by 11
  13. 2023Selenite: Scaffolding Online Sensemaking with Comprehensive Overviews Elicited from Large Language Modelscited by 10
  14. 2021Identifying Helpful Sentences in Product Reviewscited by 9
  15. 2021Keyword Assisted Embedded Topic Modelcited by 9
  16. 2022Beyond Opinion Mining: Summarizing Opinions of Customer Reviewscited by 9
  17. 2022Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarisationcited by 9
  18. 2024An Empirical Analysis of Diversity in Argument Summarizationcited by 9
  19. 2024LexAbSumm: Aspect-based Summarization of Legal Decisionscited by 9
  20. 2024GlobeSumm: A Challenging Benchmark Towards Unifying Multi-lingual, Cross-lingual and Multi-document News Summarizationcited by 9
  21. 2024Product Description and QA Assisted Self-Supervised Opinion Summarizationcited by 6
  22. 2024GLIMPSE: Pragmatically Informative Multi-Document Summarization for Scholarly Reviewscited by 6
  23. 2024Prompted Aspect Key Point Analysis for Quantitative Review Summarizationcited by 6
  24. 2022Unsupervised Opinion Summarization Using Approximate Geodesicscited by 5
  25. 2022Why Do You Feel This Way? Summarizing Triggers of Emotions in Social Media Postscited by 5
  26. 2025OpinioRAG: Towards Generating User-Centric Opinion Highlights from Large-scale Online Reviewscited by 4
  27. 2026DTCRS: Dynamic Tree Construction for Recursive Summarizationcited by 4
  28. 2026Learning to Control Summaries with Score Rankingcited by 4
  29. 2021Hyperbolic Disentangled Representation for Fine-Grained Aspect Extractioncited by 3
  30. 2023Absformer: Transformer-based Model for Unsupervised Multi-Document Abstractive Summarizationcited by 3
  31. 2024MODABS: Multi-Objective Learning for Dynamic Aspect-Based Summarizationcited by 3
  32. 2024M2DS: Multilingual Dataset for Multi-document Summarisationcited by 3
  33. 2022SETSum: Summarization and Visualization of Student Evaluations of Teachingcited by 2
  34. 2023Applications and Challenges of Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Scenarioscited by 2
  35. 2023Simple Yet Effective Synthetic Dataset Construction for Unsupervised Opinion Summarizationcited by 2
  36. 2023Going beyond research datasets: Novel intent discovery in the industry settingcited by 2
  37. 2024Polarity Calibration for Opinion Summarizationcited by 2
  38. 2021Fine-Grained Opinion Summarization with Minimal Supervisioncited by 1

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