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A Unified Generative Framework for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

arXiv 2106.04300 ↗First posted 8 Jun 2021cs.CLcited by 97

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Abstract (arXiv)

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) aims to identify the aspect terms, their corresponding sentiment polarities, and the opinion terms. There exist seven subtasks in ABSA. Most studies only focus on the subsets of these subtasks, which leads to various complicated ABSA models while hard to solve these subtasks in a unified framework. In this paper, we redefine every subtask target as a sequence mixed by pointer indexes and sentiment class indexes, which converts all ABSA subtasks into a unified generative formulation. Based on the unified formulation, we exploit the pre-training sequence-to-sequence model BART to solve all ABSA subtasks in an end-to-end framework. Extensive experiments on four ABSA datasets for seven subtasks demonstrate that our framework achieves substantial performance gain and provides a real unified end-to-end solution for the whole ABSA subtasks, which could benefit multiple tasks.

Key facts. Cited by 97 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 31 of its 52 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 8 Jun 2021.

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  1. 2019Knowing What, How and Why: A Near Complete Solution for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 123
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  2. 2022Unified Structure Generation for Universal Information Extractioncited by 220
  3. 2023InstructUIE: Multi-task Instruction Tuning for Unified Information Extractioncited by 167
  4. 2021Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generationcited by 99
  5. 2023CodeIE: Large Code Generation Models are Better Few-Shot Information Extractorscited by 67
  6. 2024Intention Analysis Makes LLMs A Good Jailbreak Defendercited by 64
  7. 2022A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challengescited by 61
  8. 2022UniMSE: Towards Unified Multimodal Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognitioncited by 61
  9. 2022Generative Knowledge Graph Construction: A Reviewcited by 49
  10. 2023MvP: Multi-view Prompting Improves Aspect Sentiment Tuple Predictioncited by 49
  11. 2021Paradigm Shift in Natural Language Processingcited by 39
  12. 2021SentiPrompt: Sentiment Knowledge Enhanced Prompt-Tuning for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 23
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  1. 2023InstructABSA: Instruction Learning for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 22
  2. 2022Vision-Language Pre-Training for Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 21
  3. 2023UniSA: Unified Generative Framework for Sentiment Analysiscited by 17
  4. 2022Instruction Tuning for Few-Shot Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 16
  5. 2024PanoSent: A Panoptic Sextuple Extraction Benchmark for Multimodal Conversational Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 13
  6. 2022A Contrastive Cross-Channel Data Augmentation Framework for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 12
  7. 2023Mirror: A Universal Framework for Various Information Extraction Taskscited by 12
  8. 2024Recent Advances in Multimodal Affective Computing: An NLP Perspectivecited by 12
  9. 2021Unified Instance and Knowledge Alignment Pretraining for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 11
  10. 2024Boosting Large Language Models with Continual Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 10
  11. 2022Challenges for Open-domain Targeted Sentiment Analysiscited by 9
  12. 2022UnifiedABSA: A Unified ABSA Framework Based on Multi-task Instruction Tuningcited by 9
  13. 2023AoM: Detecting Aspect-oriented Information for Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 9
  14. 2025A Survey on Retrieval And Structuring Augmented Generation with Large Language Modelscited by 8
  15. 2022PeerDA: Data Augmentation via Modeling Peer Relation for Span Identification Taskscited by 7
  16. 2022Towards Unifying the Label Space for Aspect- and Sentence-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 6
  17. 2022Generative Entity-to-Entity Stance Detection with Knowledge Graph Augmentationcited by 6
  18. 2023UniEX: An Effective and Efficient Framework for Unified Information Extraction via a Span-extractive Perspectivecited by 6
  19. 2023The Limits of ChatGPT in Extracting Aspect-Category-Opinion-Sentiment Quadruples: A Comparative Analysiscited by 6
  20. 2023DiffusionNER: Boundary Diffusion for Named Entity Recognitioncited by 5
  21. 2023A Unified One-Step Solution for Aspect Sentiment Quad Predictioncited by 5
  22. 2023Universal Information Extraction with Meta-Pretrained Self-Retrievalcited by 5
  23. 2023AspectCSE: Sentence Embeddings for Aspect-based Semantic Textual Similarity Using Contrastive Learning and Structured Knowledgecited by 5
  24. 2024MiniConGTS: A Near Ultimate Minimalist Contrastive Grid Tagging Scheme for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 5
  25. 2024Knowledge-Enhanced Conversational Recommendation via Transformer-based Sequential Modellingcited by 5
  26. 2023Emotion Prediction Oriented method with Multiple Supervisions for Emotion-Cause Pair Extractioncited by 4
  27. 2023SynGen: A Syntactic Plug-and-play Module for Generative Aspect-based Sentiment Analysiscited by 4
  28. 2023MEMD-ABSA: A Multi-Element Multi-Domain Dataset for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 4
  29. 2024It is Simple Sometimes: A Study On Improving Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Performancecited by 4
  30. 2022A Hierarchical Interactive Network for Joint Span-based Aspect-Sentiment Analysiscited by 3
  31. 2023Domain-Expanded ASTE: Rethinking Generalization in Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 3
  32. 2023A Pairing Enhancement Approach for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 3
  33. 2023CONTRASTE: Supervised Contrastive Pre-training With Aspect-based Prompts For Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 3
  34. 2023A Novel Energy based Model Mechanism for Multi-modal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 3
  35. 2024Self-Training with Pseudo-Label Scorer for Aspect Sentiment Quad Predictioncited by 3
  36. 2022Target-oriented Sentiment Classification with Sequential Cross-modal Semantic Graphcited by 2
  37. 2022Structural Bias for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 2
  38. 2022AX-MABSA: A Framework for Extremely Weakly Supervised Multi-label Aspect Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 2

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