A Unified One-Step Solution for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction

Junxian Zhou, Haiqin Yang, Yuxuan He, Hao Mou, JunBo Yang


Abstract
Aspect sentiment quad prediction (ASQP) is a challenging yet significant subtask in aspectbased sentiment analysis as it provides a complete aspect-level sentiment structure. However, existing ASQP datasets are usually small and low-density, hindering technical advancement. To expand the capacity, in this paper, we release two new datasets for ASQP, which contain the following characteristics: larger size, more words per sample, and higher density. With such datasets, we unveil the shortcomings of existing strong ASQP baselines and therefore propose a unified one-step solution for ASQP, namely One-ASQP, to detect the aspect categories and to identify the aspectopinion-sentiment (AOS) triplets simultaneously. Our One-ASQP holds several unique advantages: (1) by separating ASQP into two subtasks and solving them independently and simultaneously, we can avoid error propagation in pipeline-based methods and overcome slow training and inference in generation-based methods; (2) by introducing sentiment-specific horns tagging schema in a token-pair-based two-dimensional matrix, we can exploit deeper interactions between sentiment elements and efficiently decode the AOS triplets; (3) we design "[NULL]” token can help us effectively identify the implicit aspects or opinions. Experiments on two benchmark datasets and our released two datasets demonstrate the advantages of our One-ASQP. The two new datasets are publicly released at https://www.github.com/Datastory-CN/ASQP-Datasets.
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2023.findings-acl.777
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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12249–12265
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.777
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.777
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Junxian Zhou, Haiqin Yang, Yuxuan He, Hao Mou, and JunBo Yang. 2023. A Unified One-Step Solution for Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 12249–12265, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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