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Relation-Aware Collaborative Learning for Unified Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

1 Jul 2020ACL 2020 6archive 2025-07-28

Zhuang Chen, Tieyun Qian

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) involves three subtasks, i.e., aspect term extraction, opinion term extraction, and aspect-level sentiment classification. Most existing studies focused on one of these subtasks only. Several recent researches made successful attempts to solve the complete ABSA problem with a unified framework. However, the interactive relations among three subtasks are still under-exploited. We argue that such relations encode collaborative signals between different subtasks. For example, when the opinion term is \textit{{``}delicious{''}}, the aspect term must be \textit{{``}food{''}} rather than \textit{{``}place{''}}. In order to fully exploit these relations, we propose a Relation-Aware Collaborative Learning (RACL) framework which allows the subtasks to work coordinately via the multi-task learning and relation propagation mechanisms in a stacked multi-layer network. Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate that RACL significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for the complete ABSA task.

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Aspect Term Extraction and Sentiment ClassificationAspect-Based Sentiment AnalysisAspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)Multi-Task LearningSentiment AnalysisSentiment ClassificationTerm Extraction

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Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Aspect Term Extraction and Sentiment Classification SemEval RACL-BERT Avg F1 68.29 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Aspect Term Extraction and Sentiment Classification SemEval RACL-BERT Laptop 2014 (F1) 63.4 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Aspect Term Extraction and Sentiment Classification SemEval RACL-BERT Restaurant 2014 (F1) 75.42 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Aspect Term Extraction and Sentiment Classification SemEval RACL-BERT Restaurant 2015 (F1) 66.05 #4 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) SemEval 2014 Task 4 Laptop RACL-BERT F1 63.4 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) SemEval 2014 Task 4 Subtask 1+2 RACL-BERT F1 63.4 #6 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Sentiment Analysis SemEval 2014 Task 4 Subtask 1+2 RACL-BERT F1 63.4 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report

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