M-ABSA: A Multilingual Dataset for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

ChengYan Wu, Bolei Ma, Yihong Liu, Zheyu Zhang, Ningyuan Deng, Yanshu Li, Baolan Chen, Yi Zhang, Yun Xue, Barbara Plank


Abstract
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a crucial task in information extraction and sentiment analysis, aiming to identify aspects with associated sentiment elements in text. However, existing ABSA datasets are predominantly English-centric, limiting the scope for multilingual evaluation and research. To bridge this gap, we present M-ABSA, a comprehensive dataset spanning 7 domains and 21 languages, making it the most extensive multilingual parallel dataset for ABSA to date. Our primary focus is on triplet extraction, which involves identifying aspect terms, aspect categories, and sentiment polarities. The dataset is constructed through an automatic translation process with human review to ensure quality. We perform extensive experiments using various baselines to assess performance and compatibility on M-ABSA. Our empirical findings highlight that the dataset enables diverse evaluation tasks, such as multilingual and multi-domain transfer learning, and large language model evaluation, underscoring its inclusivity and its potential to drive advancements in multilingual ABSA research.
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2025.emnlp-main.128
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Christos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng
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ChengYan Wu, Bolei Ma, Yihong Liu, Zheyu Zhang, Ningyuan Deng, Yanshu Li, Baolan Chen, Yi Zhang, Yun Xue, and Barbara Plank. 2025. M-ABSA: A Multilingual Dataset for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2530–2557, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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