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Main Authors: Šmíd, Jakub, Přibáň, Pavel, Král, Pavel
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10366
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author Šmíd, Jakub
Přibáň, Pavel
Král, Pavel
author_facet Šmíd, Jakub
Přibáň, Pavel
Král, Pavel
contents Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has made significant strides, yet challenges remain for low-resource languages due to the predominant focus on English. Current cross-lingual ABSA studies often centre on simpler tasks and rely heavily on external translation tools. In this paper, we present a novel sequence-to-sequence method for compound ABSA tasks that eliminates the need for such tools. Our approach, which uses constrained decoding, improves cross-lingual ABSA performance by up to 10\%. This method broadens the scope of cross-lingual ABSA, enabling it to handle more complex tasks and providing a practical, efficient alternative to translation-dependent techniques. Furthermore, we compare our approach with large language models (LLMs) and show that while fine-tuned multilingual LLMs can achieve comparable results, English-centric LLMs struggle with these tasks.
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spellingShingle Advancing Cross-lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with LLMs and Constrained Decoding for Sequence-to-Sequence Models
Šmíd, Jakub
Přibáň, Pavel
Král, Pavel
Computation and Language
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has made significant strides, yet challenges remain for low-resource languages due to the predominant focus on English. Current cross-lingual ABSA studies often centre on simpler tasks and rely heavily on external translation tools. In this paper, we present a novel sequence-to-sequence method for compound ABSA tasks that eliminates the need for such tools. Our approach, which uses constrained decoding, improves cross-lingual ABSA performance by up to 10\%. This method broadens the scope of cross-lingual ABSA, enabling it to handle more complex tasks and providing a practical, efficient alternative to translation-dependent techniques. Furthermore, we compare our approach with large language models (LLMs) and show that while fine-tuned multilingual LLMs can achieve comparable results, English-centric LLMs struggle with these tasks.
title Advancing Cross-lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with LLMs and Constrained Decoding for Sequence-to-Sequence Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10366