AWA-GCN: Enhancing Chinese sentiment analysis with a novel GCN model for Triplet and Quadruplet Extraction at SIGHAN 2024 dimABSA Task

Haocheng Xi; Yutong Wang; Xinyu Wang; Zhitao Li; Bochun Liu; Yihan Wang; Chen Ni

doi:10.54254/2755-2721/101/20240999

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Received: 5 August 2024

Published: 8 November 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54254/2755-2721/101/20240999

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Xi,H.;Wang,Y.;Wang,X.;Li,Z.;Liu,B.;Wang,Y.;Ni,C. (2024). AWA-GCN: Enhancing Chinese sentiment analysis with a novel GCN model for Triplet and Quadruplet Extraction at SIGHAN 2024 dimABSA Task. Applied and Computational Engineering,101,87-110.

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