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SynSem-ICL: syntax-semantic fusion retrieval for structured sentiment extraction with in-context learning

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Xia, Yan
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Kamsin, Amirrudin *
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Zhuangzhuang Pan
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Zhang, Siyang
DOI:10.1007/s10844-026-01038-7delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Retrieval-based ICL for structured sentiment extraction typically selects examples by semantic similarity, which can fail to preserve correct tuple boundaries under long-distance relations or ambiguous syntax. We propose SynSem-ICL, a retrieval module that explicitly fuses dependency syntax and contextual semantics to select structurally aligned examples for a frozen large language model (LLM). SynSem-ICL encodes dependency parses with a structure-aware graph transformer and performs bidirectional cross-attention fusion. We further train a lightweight retriever with a dual-similarity contrastive objective that leverages semantic and syntactic hard negatives. On ASTE-Data-V2, using five retrieved examples, SynSem-ICL narrows the gap to fully supervised systems to 4.98-7.74 F1 points without downstream fine-tuning. On the SemEval-2022 multilingual benchmark, SynSem-ICL improves Sentiment Graph F1 (SF1) by up to 8.1 points using off-the-shelf Universal Dependencies parses. The code is available at https://github.com/xiay9/SynSem-ICL.git.
Keywords:
In-context learning
Retrieval-augmented prompting
Structured sentiment extraction
Dependency syntax
Contrastive learning
Intelligent information systems

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Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
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3.4
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75
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anhui university of science & technology
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universiti malaya
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