CACA: Context-Aware Cross-Attention Network for Extractive Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction

Bingfeng Chen, Haoran Xu, Yongqi Luo, Boyan Xu, Ruichu Cai, Zhifeng Hao


Abstract
Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction(ASQP) enhances the scope of aspect-based sentiment analysis by introducing the necessity to predict both explicit and implicit aspect and opinion terms. Existing leading generative ASQP approaches do not modeling the contextual relationship of the review sentence to predict implicit terms. However, introducing the contextual information into the pre-trained language models framework is non-trivial due to the inflexibility of the generative encoder-decoder architecture. To well utilize the contextual information, we propose an extractive ASQP framework, CACA, which features with Context-Aware Cross-Attention Network. When implicit terms are present, the Context-Aware Cross-Attention Network enhances the alignment of aspects and opinions, through alternating updates of explicit and implicit representations. Additionally, contrastive learning is introduced in the implicit representation learning process. Experimental results on three benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of CACA. Our implementation will be open-sourced at https://github.com/DMIRLAB-Group/CACA.
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2025.coling-main.635
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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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9472–9484
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Bingfeng Chen, Haoran Xu, Yongqi Luo, Boyan Xu, Ruichu Cai, and Zhifeng Hao. 2025. CACA: Context-Aware Cross-Attention Network for Extractive Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 9472–9484, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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