arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

KESA: A Knowledge Enhanced Approach For Sentiment Analysis

The paper introduces KESA, a knowledge‑enhanced approach for sentence‑level sentiment analysis that incorporates sentiment knowledge through two auxiliary tasks: sentiment word cloze and conditional sentiment prediction. These tasks use prior sentiment polarity to guide the selection of sentiment words and the prediction of overall sentiment, respectively, and explore label combination methods to unify multiple label types. Experiments show that KESA consistently outperforms pre‑trained models and complements existing knowledge‑enhanced post‑training methods.

By Qinghua Zhao, Shuai Ma, Shuo Ren
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 19

Dependency Reasoning for Aspect Sentiment Quadruple Prediction

The paper introduces DRIFT, a method that linearizes dependency parse trees and injects them into large language model prompts to improve Aspect Sentiment Quadruple Prediction (ASQP). By providing explicit relational context, DRIFT enables the model to reason over aspect‑opinion dependencies rather than relying on token proximity. Experiments on SemEval Rest15, Rest16, and ACOS show that DRIFT outperforms other generative ASQP methods, achieving 54.47% and 64.10% F1 on Rest15 and Rest16, and demonstrating consistent gains across short- and medium‑distance aspect‑opinion configurations, while also revealing that exact‑match metrics underestimate semantically correct predictions.

By Shima Esfandyari, Seywan Soleymanbaigi, Fardin Akhlaghian Tab, Fatemeh Daneshfar, Mourad Oussalah
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 9

Structured Sentiment Analysis Using Sequence Labeling as Dependency Graph Parsing

The paper presents a method for structured sentiment analysis that constructs a fine‑grained sentiment graph with nodes for sentiment holders, targets, and expressions, and arcs for their relationships. It reframes the task as dependency graph parsing and solves it via sequence labeling, using linearized graph encodings to assign a label to each word. Experiments on seven datasets across five languages demonstrate that this approach achieves performance competitive with more complex single‑model methods.

By Muhammad Imran, Ana Ezquerro, Carlos G\'omez-Rodr\'iguez, Anders S{\o}gaard, David Vilares
arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

Steering with Multilingual Lexicons for Sentiment Control in Low-Resource Languages

The paper proposes using multilingual sentiment lexicons to steer language models for sentiment control, especially in low-resource languages. It finds that aggregated multilingual lexicons outperform English-derived steering vectors for mid- and low-resource languages, while monolingual lexicons are still best for languages the model was pre-trained on. The study also explains how representational density, pre-training priors, and architectural biases affect steering effectiveness, noting that large English vectors can cause linguistic collapse in low-resource settings but this is mitigated by norm-dampening in multilingual aggregation.

By Lucinda Laurent, Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Fajri Koto