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This paper introduces DRIFT, a method that enhances Aspect Sentiment Quadruple Prediction by explicitly injecting linearized dependency parse trees into LLM prompts to model structured relational dependencies. By treating sentiment analysis as a reasoning task over syntax rather than relying on token proximity, the approach achieves superior F1 scores on standard benchmarks like SemEval. The work highlights a critical shift in NLP research toward leveraging explicit structural context within large language models for complex semantic tasks.
Dependency Reasoning for Aspect Sentiment Quadruple Prediction
arXiv:2610.14873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aspect Sentiment Quadruple Prediction (ASQP) is fundamentally a relational reasoning problem: identifying aspect-opinion-category-sentiment quadruples requires modeling structured dependencies, not merely sequential co-occurrence. Existing LLM-based approaches incorporate syntactic information indirectly, via retrieval-based demonstration selection or multi-stage training, rather than as unified, single-pass generation-time context. We present DRIFT, which linearizes dependency parse trees and injects them directly into LLM prompts as explicit relational context, enabling the model to reason over aspect-opinion dependencies rather than infer them from token proximity alone. DRIFT further integrates retrieval-augmented in-context learning and a syntax-aware LLM-based adjudication mechanism that complements exact-match evaluation under span-boundary variation. On SemEval Rest15, Rest16, and ACOS, DRIFT achieves the strongest performance among compared generative ASQP methods, reaching 54.47% and 64.10% F1 on Rest15 and Rest16, with consistent gains across short- and medium-distance aspect-opinion configurations; adjudication further shows exact-match metrics systematically underestimate semantically correct predictions.
Abstract:Aspect Sentiment Quadruple Prediction (ASQP) is fundamentally a relational reasoning problem: identifying aspect-opinion-category-sentiment quadruples requires modeling structured dependencies, not merely sequential co-occurrence. Existing LLM-based approaches incorporate syntactic information indirectly, via retrieval-based demonstration selection or multi-stage training, rather than as unified, single-pass generation-time context. We present DRIFT, which linearizes dependency parse trees and injects them directly into LLM prompts as explicit relational context, enabling the model to reason over aspect-opinion dependencies rather than infer them from token proximity alone. DRIFT further integrates retrieval-augmented in-context learning and a syntax-aware LLM-based adjudication mechanism that complements exact-match evaluation under span-boundary variation. On SemEval Rest15, Rest16, and ACOS, DRIFT achieves the strongest performance among compared generative ASQP methods, reaching 54.47% and 64.10% F1 on Rest15 and Rest16, with consistent gains across short- and medium-distance aspect-opinion configurations; adjudication further shows exact-match metrics systematically underestimate semantically correct predictions.
Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2610.14873 [cs.CL]
(or arXiv:2610.14873v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
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