USSA: A Unified Table Filling Scheme for Structured Sentiment Analysis

Zepeng Zhai, Hao Chen, Ruifan Li, Xiaojie Wang


Abstract
Most previous studies on Structured Sentiment Analysis (SSA) have cast it as a problem of bi-lexical dependency parsing, which cannot address issues of overlap and discontinuity simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a niche-targeting and effective solution. Our approach involves creating a novel bi-lexical dependency parsing graph, which is then converted to a unified 2D table-filling scheme, namely USSA. The proposed scheme resolves the kernel bottleneck of previous SSA methods by utilizing 13 different types of relations. In addition, to closely collaborate with the USSA scheme, we have developed a model that includes a proposed bi-axial attention module to effectively capture the correlations among relations in the rows and columns of the table. Extensive experimental results on benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our proposed framework, outperforming state-of-the-art methods consistently.
Anthology ID:
2023.acl-long.802
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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14340–14353
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.802
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.802
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Zepeng Zhai, Hao Chen, Ruifan Li, and Xiaojie Wang. 2023. USSA: A Unified Table Filling Scheme for Structured Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 14340–14353, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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