ViTOED: A Dataset for Target-Oriented Emotion Detection on Vietnamese Social Media Texts

Abstract:This paper introduces ViTOED, a novel dataset for target-oriented emotion detection in Vietnamese social media texts. The ViTOED comprises 10,985 user comments and 21,244 manually annotated opinion quadruples (source, target, expression, polarity) that follow strict guidelines. The dataset reveals Vietnamese-specific phenomena, such as implicit sources and targets and vocabulary ambiguities, enabling deeper analysis of user emotions toward entities. We propose a baseline using structured sentiment graphs and evaluate various Vietnamese pre-trained language models. The empirical results highlight challenges in span detection and relation extraction and indicate substantial room for model improvement in Vietnamese Target-Oriented Emotion Detection tasks.

Computation and Language (cs.CL)

arXiv:2608.12776 [cs.CL]

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