Improving Generative Cross-lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Constrained Decoding
While aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has made substantial progress, challenges remain for low-resource languages, which are often overlooked in favour of English. Current cross-lingual ABSA approaches focus on limited, less complex tasks and often rely on external translation tools. This paper introduces a novel approach using constrained decoding with sequence-to-sequence models, eliminating the need for unreliable translation tools and improving cross-lingual performance by 5\% on average for the most complex task. The proposed method also supports multi-tasking, which enables solving multiple ABSA tasks with a single model, with constrained decoding boosting results by more than 10\%. We evaluate our approach across seven languages and six ABSA tasks, surpassing state-of-the-art methods and setting new benchmarks for previously unexplored tasks. Additionally, we assess large language models (LLMs) in zero-shot, few-shot, and fine-tuning scenarios. While LLMs perform poorly in zero-shot and few-shot settings, fine-tuning achieves competitive results compared to smaller multilingual models, albeit at the cost of longer training and inference times. We provide practical recommendations for real-world applications, enhancing the understanding of cross-lingual ABSA methodologies. This study offers valuable insights into the strengths and limitations of cross-lingual ABSA approaches, advancing the state-of-the-art in this challenging research domain.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Tasks
Sentiment AnalysisSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Discriminative Models Still Outperform Generative Models in Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis In Cross-Domain and Cross-Lingual Settings
Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) helps to explain customers' opinions towards products and services. In the past, ABSA models were discriminative, but more recently generative models have been used to generate aspe…
Aspect-Based Sentiment AnalysisAspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)Sentiment AnalysisGenerative Models Enhanced by Sequence Labelling and Aspect-Code Switching Improve Cross-lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Cross-lingual aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) transfers knowledge from a source language with annotated data to a target language, enabling fine-grained sentiment analysis without annotated target-language data. W…
Sentiment AnalysisDiscriminative Models Can Still Outperform Generative Models in Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis
Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) helps to explain customers' opinions towards products and services. In the past, ABSA models were discriminative, but more recently generative models have been used to generate aspe…
Aspect-Based Sentiment AnalysisAspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)Sentiment AnalysisDiscriminative Models Can Still Outperform Generative Models in Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis
Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) helps to explain customers' opinions towards products and services. In the past, ABSA models were discriminative, but more recently generative models have been used to generate aspe…
Aspect-Based Sentiment AnalysisAspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)Sentiment AnalysisCross-lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: A Survey on Tasks, Approaches, and Challenges
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained sentiment analysis task that focuses on understanding opinions at the aspect level, including sentiment towards specific aspect terms, categories, and opinions. Wh…
Cross-Lingual TransferSentiment AnalysisTerm Extraction