--- title: "DualAxis AI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based" description: "The authors, a Goethe University Frankfurt team, build reproducible baselines for all three subtasks on restaurant and laptop… 8 references." authors: ["Yahya Missaoui", "Solomon Kebede", "Mounika Marreddy", "Alexander Mehler"] year: 2026 venue: "Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)" source: "https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.82/" doi: "10.18653/v1/2026.semeval-1.82" licence: "CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/missaoui-2026-dualaxis-ai-semeval-2026-task/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/missaoui-2026-dualaxis-ai-semeval-2026-task/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/28/) / DualAxis AI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis # DualAxis AI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis **Authors:** Yahya Missaoui, Solomon Kebede, [Mounika Marreddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mounika-marreddy/) and [Alexander Mehler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-mehler/) · **Year:** 2026 · **Venue:** [Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/) ([SemEval 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2026/)) · **Publisher:** [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) **Links:** [Publisher's page](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.82/) · [PDF](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.82.pdf) · [DOI 10.18653/v1/2026.semeval-1.82](https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.semeval-1.82) · [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W7166854583) **Citations:** 0 citations (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14) ## Summary This paper tackles Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA) from SemEval-2026 Task 3. In this setting, sentiment toward an aspect is encoded as real-valued valence and arousal (each on a 1–9 scale) instead of a positive/negative label. The authors, a Goethe University Frankfurt team, build reproducible baselines for all three subtasks on restaurant and laptop reviews. For DimASR (aspect-level regression), every annotated aspect becomes its own example by joining it with the review text. A BERT or RoBERTa encoder processes this input, and a feed-forward head on mean-pooled token states is trained with Huber loss on standardized targets. For DimASTE and DimASQP, Flan-T5 receives an instruction plus the review and writes out triplets or quadruplets as text, which are then parsed back into structured records. RoBERTa-large reaches the lowest development RMSE. The generative system surpasses the organizer baseline in every test configuration, with the largest margin on laptop quadruplets. The study shows that continuous regression is fairly stable, while joint extraction with continuous scoring remains hard. The released code gives future work a reference point. ## Key points - **Subtask 1 (DimASR, dev set):** RoBERTa-large performs best in both domains. - Restaurant: average RMSE 0.884, CCC 0.800. - Laptop: average RMSE 0.789, CCC 0.778. - It outperforms RoBERTa-base and both BERT-base variants (cased and uncased). - **Subtasks 2–3 (test-set cF1), Flan-T5-large vs. organizer baseline:** - DimASTE: 0.6024 vs. 0.5442 (restaurant) and 0.5038 vs. 0.4664 (laptop). - DimASQP: 0.5426 vs. 0.5048 (restaurant) and 0.5910 vs. 0.2483 (laptop). - The abstract cites different figures (0.742/0.648 and 0.604/0.385), probably from another evaluation split. - **Data format:** inputs come as JSONL, with VA labels written as "V#A" strings (e.g., 6.75#6.38) and implicit spans marked NULL. - Model selection uses a 90/10 train–validation split. - DimASR test labels were not released, so Subtask 1 is reported on dev only. - **Category effect:** on laptops, DimASQP scores higher than DimASTE. The authors credit the closed set of aspect categories (e.g., BATTERY#OPERATION_PERFORMANCE) with acting as a grounding signal. - **Training and code:** training converges within 2–3 epochs. Code is available at github.com/SolomonM-Kebede/ProjectNLP-DimABSA2026. *Our summary of the paper, in our own words — not its text. The work belongs to its authors; read it at the links above.* ## Institutions - [Goethe University Frankfurt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/goethe-university-frankfurt/) — University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany · 18 works · 373 citations 📚 Shelves (6): [🖥️ Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · 16,667 works · [🤖 Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · 16,194 works · [🎭 Arts and Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · 16,039 works · [🗣️ Language and Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · 15,891 works · [💭 Psychology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · 1,552 works · [💭 Experimental and Cognitive Psychology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · 870 works 🧭 Topics (1): [😊 Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · 972 works ## Cite Cite as: Yahya Missaoui, Solomon Kebede, Mounika Marreddy and Alexander Mehler. 2026. DualAxis AI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026). The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. ```bibtex @inproceedings{missaoui2026dualaxis, title = {{DualAxis AI at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis}}, author = {Yahya Missaoui, Solomon Kebede, Mounika Marreddy and Alexander Mehler}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)}, year = {2026}, doi = {10.18653/v1/2026.semeval-1.82}, url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.semeval-1.82} } ``` - [← previous Dual-Axis Compositional Contrastive Few-Shot Learning using Prototypes Across Linguistic and Semantic Dimensions for Indic Low-Resource Multilingual NLU](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mitra-2026-dual-axis-compositional-contrastive-few/) - [next → DualFact+: A Multimodal Fact Verification Framework for Procedural Video Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oguz-2026-dualfact-multimodal-fact-verification-framework/) - [↑ back to papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/28/) ## References 8 references, 3 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. 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