Towards Semantic Integration of Opinions: Unified Opinion Concepts Ontology and Extraction Task

Gaurav Negi, Dhairya Dalal, Omnia Zayed, Paul Buitelaar


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43 This paper introduces the Unified Opinion Concepts (UOC) ontology to integrate opinions within their semantic context. The UOC ontology bridges the gap between the semantic representation of opinion across different formulations. It is a unified conceptualisation based on the facets of opinions studied extensively in NLP and semantic structures described through symbolic descriptions. We further propose the Unified Opinion Concept Extraction (UOCE) task of extracting opinions from the text with enhanced expressivity. Additionally, we provide a manually extended and re-annotated evaluation dataset for this task and tailored evaluation metrics to assess the adherence of extracted opinions to UOC semantics. Finally, we establish baseline performance for the UOCE task using state-of-the-art generative models.
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2025.ldk-1.19
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Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge
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2025
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Naples, Italy
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Mehwish Alam, Andon Tchechmedjiev, Jorge Gracia, Dagmar Gromann, Maria Pia di Buono, Johanna Monti, Maxim Ionov
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Gaurav Negi, Dhairya Dalal, Omnia Zayed, and Paul Buitelaar. 2025. Towards Semantic Integration of Opinions: Unified Opinion Concepts Ontology and Extraction Task. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, pages 174–185, Naples, Italy. Unior Press.
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