eMLM: A New Pre-training Objective for Emotion Related Tasks

Tiberiu Sosea, Cornelia Caragea


Abstract
BERT has been shown to be extremely effective on a wide variety of natural language processing tasks, including sentiment analysis and emotion detection. However, the proposed pretraining objectives of BERT do not induce any sentiment or emotion-specific biases into the model. In this paper, we present Emotion Masked Language Modelling, a variation of Masked Language Modelling aimed at improving the BERT language representation model for emotion detection and sentiment analysis tasks. Using the same pre-training corpora as the original model, Wikipedia and BookCorpus, our BERT variation manages to improve the downstream performance on 4 tasks from emotion detection and sentiment analysis by an average of 1.2% F-1. Moreover, our approach shows an increased performance in our task-specific robustness tests.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-short.38
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
Venues:
ACL | IJCNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
286–293
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.38
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.38
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Cite (ACL):
Tiberiu Sosea and Cornelia Caragea. 2021. eMLM: A New Pre-training Objective for Emotion Related Tasks. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 286–293, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
eMLM: A New Pre-training Objective for Emotion Related Tasks (Sosea & Caragea, ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.38.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.38.mp4
Code
 tsosea2/emlm
Data
BookCorpusGoEmotionsSSTSST-2SST-5