Nils Constantin Hellwig


2025

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Do we still need Human Annotators? Prompting Large Language Models for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction
Nils Constantin Hellwig | Jakob Fehle | Udo Kruschwitz | Christian Wolff
Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Large Language Models and Structure Modeling (XLLM 2025)

Aspect sentiment quad prediction (ASQP) facilitates a detailed understanding of opinions expressed in a text by identifying the opinion term, aspect term, aspect category and sentiment polarity for each opinion. However, annotating a full set of training examples to fine-tune models for ASQP is a resource-intensive process. In this study, we explore the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) for zero- and few-shot learning on the ASQP task across five diverse datasets. We report F1 scores almost up to par with those obtained with state-of-the-art fine-tuned models and exceeding previously reported zero- and few-shot performance. In the 20-shot setting on the Rest16 restaurant domain dataset, LLMs achieved an F1 score of 51.54, compared to 60.39 by the best-performing fine-tuned method MVP. Additionally, we report the performance of LLMs in target aspect sentiment detection (TASD), where the F1 scores were close to fine-tuned models, achieving 68.93 on Rest16 in the 30-shot setting, compared to 72.76 with MVP. While human annotators remain essential for achieving optimal performance, LLMs can reduce the need for extensive manual annotation in ASQP tasks.

2024

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GERestaurant: A German Dataset of Annotated Restaurant Reviews for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Nils Constantin Hellwig | Jakob Fehle | Markus Bink | Christian Wolff
Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024)

2023

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Transformer-Based Analysis of Sentiment Towards German Political Parties on Twitter During the 2021 Election Year
Nils Constantin Hellwig | Markus Bink | Thomas Schmidt | Jakob Fehle | Christian Wolff
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2023)