CLAug 12, 2025

Prompt-Based Approach for Czech Sentiment Analysis

arXiv:2508.08651v1136 citationsh-index: 6RANLP
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This work addresses sentiment analysis for Czech, a low-resource language, with incremental improvements using prompt-based methods.

The paper introduces the first prompt-based methods for aspect-based sentiment analysis and sentiment classification in Czech, showing that prompting outperforms traditional fine-tuning and yields significantly better results with limited training examples in zero-shot and few-shot scenarios.

This paper introduces the first prompt-based methods for aspect-based sentiment analysis and sentiment classification in Czech. We employ the sequence-to-sequence models to solve the aspect-based tasks simultaneously and demonstrate the superiority of our prompt-based approach over traditional fine-tuning. In addition, we conduct zero-shot and few-shot learning experiments for sentiment classification and show that prompting yields significantly better results with limited training examples compared to traditional fine-tuning. We also demonstrate that pre-training on data from the target domain can lead to significant improvements in a zero-shot scenario.

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