This document discusses aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) which aims to identify aspects of target entities and the sentiment expressed towards each aspect. It describes 4 tasks: 1) aspect term extraction, 2) aspect term polarity detection, 3) aspect term categorization, and 4) aspect category polarity detection. It provides examples and discusses the tools and methods used for each task, including using the Stanford CoreNLP parser and NLTK. Challenges included some aspect terms not being correctly extracted by rules and assigning polarity when multiple aspects are present. The dataset came from restaurant reviews in XML format.