ABSA-Bench: Towards the Unified Evaluation of Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Research

Abhishek Das, Wei Emma Zhang


Abstract
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)has gained much attention in recent years. It is the task of identifying fine-grained opinionpolarity towards a specific aspect associated with a given target. However, there is a lack of benchmarking platform to provide a unified environment under consistent evaluation criteria for ABSA, resulting in the difficulties for fair comparisons. In this work, we address this issue and define a benchmark, ABSA-Bench, by unifying the evaluation protocols and the pre-processed publicly available datasets in a Web-based platform. ABSA-Bench provides two means of evaluations for participants to submit their predictions or models for online evaluation. Performances are ranked in the leader board and a discussion forum is supported to serve as a collaborative platform for academics and researchers to discuss queries.
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2020.alta-1.7
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Proceedings of the 18th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association
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December
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2020
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Virtual Workshop
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Maria Kim, Daniel Beck, Meladel Mistica
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ALTA
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Australasian Language Technology Association
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65–71
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Abhishek Das and Wei Emma Zhang. 2020. ABSA-Bench: Towards the Unified Evaluation of Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Research. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, pages 65–71, Virtual Workshop. Australasian Language Technology Association.
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ABSA-Bench: Towards the Unified Evaluation of Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Research (Das & Zhang, ALTA 2020)
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