COF: Adaptive Chain of Feedback for Comparative Opinion Quintuple Extraction

Qingting Xu, Kaisong Song, Chaoqun Liu, Yangyang Kang, Xiabing Zhou, Jun Lin, Yu Hong


Abstract
Comparative Opinion Quintuple Extraction (COQE) aims to extract all comparative sentiment quintuples from product review text. Each quintuple comprises five elements: subject, object, aspect, opinion and preference. With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), existing work primarily focuses on enhancing the performance of COQE task through data augmentation, supervised fine-tuning and instruction tuning. Instead of the above pre-modeling and in-modeling design techniques, we focus on innovation in the post-processing. We introduce a model-unaware adaptive chain-of-feedback (COF) method from the perspective of inference feedback and extraction revision. This method comprises three core modules: dynamic example selection, self-critique and self-revision. By integrating LLMs, COF enables dynamic iterative self-optimization, making it applicable across different baselines. To validate the effectiveness of our approach, we utilize the outputs of two distinct baselines as inputs for COF: frozen parameters few-shot learning and the SOTA supervised fine-tuned model. We evaluate our approach on three benchmarks: Camera, Car and Ele. Experimental results show that, compared to the few-shot learning method, our approach achieves F1 score improvements of 3.51%, 2.65% and 5.28% for exact matching on the respective dataset. Even more impressively, our method further boosts performance, surpassing the current SOTA results, with additional gains of 0.76%, 6.54%, and 2.36% across the three datasets.
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2025.coling-main.217
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Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert
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COLING
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Qingting Xu, Kaisong Song, Chaoqun Liu, Yangyang Kang, Xiabing Zhou, Jun Lin, and Yu Hong. 2025. COF: Adaptive Chain of Feedback for Comparative Opinion Quintuple Extraction. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3236–3247, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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