TeleAI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Large Language Models for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Yan Zhou, Wangshicheng Wang, Shiquan Wang, Mengjiao Bao, Ruiyu Fang, Shuangyong Song, Yongxiang Li, Xuelong Li


Abstract
This paper describes TeleAI’s system for SemEval-2026 Task 3, Track A, Subtask 1 (DimASR), which focuses on predicting continuous Valence-Arousal (VA) scores for specific aspects in text. We frame this task as an end-to-end regression problem and propose a robust framework utilizing Qwen2.5-7B as the feature extraction backbone, combined with parameter-efficient fine-tuning via LoRA. To enhance model generalization and mitigate domain shifts, we primarily leverage multilingual and multi-domain mixed training. Furthermore, our system integrates several optimization and robustness techniques to stabilize continuous score prediction, including R-Drop-style consistency regularization, embedding-level PGD adversarial training, Smooth L1 (Huber) loss, sigmoid-based output interval mapping, and post-hoc linear calibration. Our comprehensive ablations demonstrate that the combination of joint training and robustness regularizations substantially reduces the official evaluation metric, $RMSE{VA}$. The proposed system achieves highly competitive performance across multiple language and domain settings, demonstrating the efficacy of applying lightweight LLM adaptation for dimensional aspect-based sentiment analysis.
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2026.semeval-1.233
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Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Ekaterina Kochmar, Debanjan Ghosh, Kai North, Mamoru Komachi
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Yan Zhou, Wangshicheng Wang, Shiquan Wang, Mengjiao Bao, Ruiyu Fang, Shuangyong Song, Yongxiang Li, and Xuelong Li. 2026. TeleAI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Large Language Models for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026), pages 1846–1852, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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TeleAI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Large Language Models for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (Zhou et al., SemEval 2026)
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