Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation
Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, Yifei Yuan, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam
Abstract
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has been extensively studied in recent years, which typically involves four fundamental sentiment elements, including the aspect category, aspect term, opinion term, and sentiment polarity. Existing studies usually consider the detection of partial sentiment elements, instead of predicting the four elements in one shot. In this work, we introduce the Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction (ASQP) task, aiming to jointly detect all sentiment elements in quads for a given opinionated sentence, which can reveal a more comprehensive and complete aspect-level sentiment structure. We further propose a novel Paraphrase modeling paradigm to cast the ASQP task to a paraphrase generation process. On one hand, the generation formulation allows solving ASQP in an end-to-end manner, alleviating the potential error propagation in the pipeline solution. On the other hand, the semantics of the sentiment elements can be fully exploited by learning to generate them in the natural language form. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets show the superiority of our proposed method and the capacity of cross-task transfer with the proposed unified Paraphrase modeling framework.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.emnlp-main.726
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Editors:
- Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 9209–9219
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.726
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.726
- Cite (ACL):
- Wenxuan Zhang, Yang Deng, Xin Li, Yifei Yuan, Lidong Bing, and Wai Lam. 2021. Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 9209–9219, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction as Paraphrase Generation (Zhang et al., EMNLP 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2021.emnlp-main.726.pdf
- Code
- isakzhang/absa-quad
- Data
- ACOS, ASQP, ASTE, TASD