# From Annotation to Adaptation: Metrics, Synthetic Data, and Aspect Extraction for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20715 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.20715/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in LLM synthetic data generation, one of 13 directions in Synthetic data and self-improvement for LLMs.
- Builds on 15 of its 54 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 26 Mar 2025.

## Placed in

- Synthetic data and self-improvement for LLMs / [LLM synthetic data generation](https://mlsanity.com/synth/llm-synthetic-data-generation/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 15 of 15)

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- [Self-Refine: Iterative Refinement with Self-Feedback](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.17651/) (2023)
- [QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.14314/) (2023)
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- [Sentence-T5: Scalable Sentence Encoders from Pre-trained Text-to-Text Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.08877/) (2021)
- [TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.07759/) (2023)
- [Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professionals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14958/) (2022)
- [Relational Graph Attention Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.12362/) (2020)
- [LLMs Accelerate Annotation for Medical Information Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.02296/) (2023)
- [SentimentGPT: Exploiting GPT for Advanced Sentiment Analysis and its Departure from Current Machine Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.10234/) (2023)
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- [In-Context Learning for Text Classification with Many Labels](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.10954/) (2023)
- [InstructABSA: Instruction Learning for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.08624/) (2023)
- [A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.14266/) (2022)

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

- [LASQ: A Low-resource Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple Extraction Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.10417/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This study examines the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), with a focus on implicit aspect extraction in a novel domain. Using a synthetic sports feedback dataset, we evaluate open-weight LLMs' ability to extract aspect-polarity pairs and propose a metric to facilitate the evaluation of aspect extraction with generative models. Our findings highlight both the potential and limitations of LLMs in the ABSA task.