nchellwig at SemEval-2026 Task 3: Self-Consistent Structured Generation (SCSG) for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis using Large Language Models

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Authors: Nils Constantin Hellwig, Jakob Fehle, Udo Kruschwitz, Christian Wolff
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Abstract

We present Self-Consistent Structured Generation (SCSG) for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in SemEval-2026 Task 3 (Track A).SCSG enhances prediction reliability by executing a LoRA-adapted large language model multiple times per instance, retaining only tuples that achieve a majority consensus across runs.To mitigate the computational overhead of multiple forward passes, we leverage vLLM's PagedAttention mechanism for efficient key-value cache reuse.Evaluation across 6 languages and 8 language-domain combinations demonstrates that self-consistency with 15 executions yields statistically significant improvements over single-inference prompting, with our system (leveraging Gemma 3) ranking in the top seven across all settings, achieving second place on three out of four English subsets and first place on Tatar-Restaurant for DimASTE.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Mental Health via Writing Topic Modeling

Publication details

Journal / source
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages
37–47
Publication date
1 January 2026