configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: train/*.arrow
- split: test
path: test/*.arrow
The EduRABSA dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
EduRABSA_AOPE
This dataset is a version of the EduRABSA dataset formatted for the AOPE (Aspect-opinion Pair Extraction) subtask.
Full details about the dataset are available in our paper EduRABSA: An Education Review Dataset for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Tasks
To cite this dataset:
@misc{hua2025edurabsaeducationreviewdataset,
title={EduRABSA: An Education Review Dataset for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Tasks},
author={Yan Cathy Hua and Paul Denny and Jörg Wicker and Katerina Taskova},
year={2025},
eprint={2508.17008},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17008},
}
Dataset Overview
Education Review ABSA (EduRABSA) is a manually annotated student review text dataset for multiple Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis tasks, including:
- Aspect-(opinion-category)-Sentiment Quadruplet Extraction (ASQE)
- Aspect-(opinion)-Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE)
- Aspect Sentiment Classification (ASC; a.k.a. Aspect Polarity Classification; APC)
- Aspect Category Detection (ACD) / Aspect-opinion Categorisation (AOC)
- Aspect-Opinion Pair-Extraction (AOPE)
- Aspect Extraction (AE)
- Opinion Extraction (OE)
The dataset consists of 6,500 pieces of stratified samples of public tertiary student review text in the English language released in 2020-2023 on courses ("course review", N=3,000), teaching staff ("teacher review", N=3,000), and university ("university review", N=500).
Details & Instructions
Dataset Source
| Review Type | Dataset Name | Publish Year | Licence | Total Entries | Sampled (N=6,500) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Course review | Course Reviews University of Waterloo [1] | October 2022 | CC0: Public Domain | 14,810 | 3,000 |
| Teacher review | Big Data Set from RateMyProfessor.com for Professors' Teaching Evaluation [2] | March 2020 | CC BY 4.0 | 19,145 | 3,000 |
| University review | University of Exeter Reviews [3] | June 2023 | CC0: Public Domain | 557 | 500 |
[1]: Waterloo Course Reviews. Course Reviews University of Waterloo. October 2022.
[2]: RateMyProfessor Dataset. Big Data Set from RateMyProfessor.com for Professors' Teaching Evaluation. March 2020.
[3]: Exeter Reviews. University of Exeter Reviews. June 2023.
Sampling & Annotation Info
For sampling and annotation details, please visit the full repository: https://github.com/yhua219/edurabsa_dataset_and_annotation_tool