# Document-Level Supervision for Multi-Aspect Sentiment Analysis Without Fine-grained Labels

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06940 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.06940/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 12 of its 33 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Oct 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 12 of 12)

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- [Knowing What, How and Why: A Near Complete Solution for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.01616/) (2019)
- [Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis with Gated Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.07043/) (2018)
- [Adapt or Get Left Behind: Domain Adaptation through BERT Language Model Finetuning for Aspect-Target Sentiment Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.11860/) (2019)
- [Aspect-based Sentiment Classification with Aspect-specific Graph Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.03477/) (2019)
- [Open-Domain Targeted Sentiment Analysis via Span-Based Extraction and Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.03820/) (2019)
- [Embarrassingly Simple Unsupervised Aspect Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.13580/) (2020)
- [W2VLDA: Almost Unsupervised System for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.07687/) (2017)
- [A Disentangled Adversarial Neural Topic Model for Separating Opinions from Plots in User Reviews](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11384/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [DanceHA: A Multi-Agent Framework for Document-Level Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.16546/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a widely studied topic, most often trained through supervision from human annotations of opinionated texts. These fine-grained annotations include identifying aspects towards which a user expresses their sentiment, and their associated polarities (aspect-based sentiments). Such fine-grained annotations can be expensive and often infeasible to obtain in real-world settings. There is, however, an abundance of scenarios where user-generated text contains an overall sentiment, such as a rating of 1-5 in user reviews or user-generated feedback, which may be leveraged for this task. In this paper, we propose a VAE-based topic modeling approach that performs ABSA using document-level supervision and without requiring fine-grained labels for either aspects or sentiments. Our approach allows for the detection of multiple aspects in a document, thereby allowing for the possibility of reasoning about how sentiment expressed through multiple aspects comes together to form an observable overall document-level sentiment. We demonstrate results on two benchmark datasets from two different domains, significantly outperforming a state-of-the-art baseline.