Rethinking ASTE: A Minimalist Tagging Scheme Alongside Contrastive Learning

Anonymous

Abstract: Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE) is a burgeoning subtask of fine-grained sentiment analysis, aiming to extract structured sentiment triplets from unstructured textual data. Existing approaches to ASTE often complicate the task with additional structures or external data. In this research, we propose a novel tagging scheme and employ a contrastive learning approach to mitigate these challenges. The proposed approach demonstrates comparable or superior performance in comparison to state-of-the-art techniques, while featuring a more compact design and reduced computational overhead. Notably, even in the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), our method exhibits superior efficacy compared to GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 in a few-shot learning scenarios. This study also provides valuable insights for the advancement of ASTE techniques within the paradigm of large language models.

Paper Type: long

Research Area: Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining

Contribution Types: Model analysis & interpretability, Approaches to low-resource settings, Approaches low compute settings-efficiency

Languages Studied: English