Widanalage De Mel


2026

This paper describes our system for the DimABSA 2026 Shared Task (SemEval-2026 Task 3), Track A, covering all three subtasks. We develop two complementary approaches: (1) DESS (Thenuwara and de Silva, 2025), an adaptation of our span-based extraction model incorporating dual-channel GCNs and a valence–arousal (VA) regression head.