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A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Challenges

arXiv 2203.01054 ↗First posted 2 Mar 2022cs.CLcited by 61

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As an important fine-grained sentiment analysis problem, aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA), aiming to analyze and understand people's opinions at the aspect level, has been attracting considerable interest in the last decade. To handle ABSA in different scenarios, various tasks are introduced for analyzing different sentiment elements and their relations, including the aspect term, aspect category, opinion term, and sentiment polarity. Unlike early ABSA works focusing on a single sentiment element, many compound ABSA tasks involving multiple elements have been studied in recent years for capturing more complete aspect-level sentiment information. However, a systematic review of various ABSA tasks and their corresponding solutions is still lacking, which we aim to fill in this survey. More specifically, we provide a new taxonomy for ABSA which organizes existing studies from the axes of concerned sentiment elements, with an emphasis on recent advances of compound ABSA tasks. From the perspective of solutions, we summarize the utilization of pre-trained language models for ABSA, which improved the performance of ABSA to a new stage. Besides, techniques for building more practical ABSA systems in cross-domain/lingual scenarios are discussed. Finally, we review some emerging topics and discuss some open challenges to outlook potential future directions of ABSA.

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  5. 2024RoBERTa-BiLSTM: A Context-Aware Hybrid Model for Sentiment Analysiscited by 7
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  9. 2024LAMPO: Large Language Models as Preference Machines for Few-shot Ordinal Classificationcited by 5
  10. 2025EduRABSA: An Education Review Dataset for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Taskscited by 5
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  12. 2023Domain-Expanded ASTE: Rethinking Generalization in Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extractioncited by 3
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  16. 2023A Weak Supervision Approach for Few-Shot Aspect Based Sentimentcited by 1
  17. 2023Better Handling Coreference Resolution in Aspect Level Sentiment Classification by Fine-Tuning Language Modelscited by 1
  18. 2023Leveraging Explainable AI to Analyze Researchers' Aspect-Based Sentiment about ChatGPTcited by 1
  19. 2023Indo LEGO-ABSA: A Multitask Generative Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis for Indonesian Languagecited by 1
  20. 2024Adaptive Data Augmentation for Aspect Sentiment Quad Predictioncited by 1
  21. 2024Exploiting Adaptive Contextual Masking for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysiscited by 1
  22. 2024E2TP: Element to Tuple Prompting Improves Aspect Sentiment Tuple Predictioncited by 1
  23. 2024Enhancing Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis in Tourism Using Large Language Models and Positional Informationcited by 1
  24. 2025EmoGRACE: Aspect-based emotion analysis for social media datacited by 1
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  26. 2025CrosGrpsABS: Cross-Attention over Syntactic and Semantic Graphs for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in a Low-Resource Languagecited by 1
  27. 2025Resolving Knowledge Conflicts in Domain-specific Data Selection: A Case Study on Medical Instruction-tuningcited by 1
  28. 2025Cross-lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: A Survey on Tasks, Approaches, and Challengescited by 1
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  30. 2026DSIPA: Detecting LLM-Generated Texts via Sentiment-Invariant Patterns Divergence Analysiscited by 1
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  32. 2023An Empirical Study of Benchmarking Chinese Aspect Sentiment Quad Predictioncited by 0
  33. 2024Linguistic features for sentence difficulty prediction in ABSAcited by 0
  34. 2024Triple GNNs: Introducing Syntactic and Semantic Information for Conversational Aspect-Based Quadruple Sentiment Analysiscited by 0
  35. 2024New Benchmark Dataset and Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Fusion Framework for Vietnamese Multimodal Aspect-Category Sentiment Analysiscited by 0
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  38. 2025An Aspect Extraction Framework using Different Embedding Types, Learning Models, and Dependency Structurecited by 0

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