Meta-learning for Classifying Previously Unseen Data Source into Previously Unseen Emotional Categories

Gaël Guibon, Matthieu Labeau, Hélène Flamein, Luce Lefeuvre, Chloé Clavel


Abstract
In this paper, we place ourselves in a classification scenario in which the target classes and data type are not accessible during training. We use a meta-learning approach to determine whether or not meta-trained information from common social network data with fine-grained emotion labels can achieve competitive performance on messages labeled with different emotion categories. We leverage few-shot learning to match with the classification scenario and consider metric learning based meta-learning by setting up Prototypical Networks with a Transformer encoder, trained in an episodic fashion. This approach proves to be effective for capturing meta-information from a source emotional tag set to predict previously unseen emotional tags. Even though shifting the data type triggers an expected performance drop, our meta-learning approach achieves decent results when compared to the fully supervised one.
Anthology ID:
2021.metanlp-1.9
Volume:
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Meta Learning and Its Applications to Natural Language Processing
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Hung-Yi Lee, Mitra Mohtarami, Shang-Wen Li, Di Jin, Mandy Korpusik, Shuyan Dong, Ngoc Thang Vu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Venue:
MetaNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
76–89
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.metanlp-1.9
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.metanlp-1.9
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Cite (ACL):
Gaël Guibon, Matthieu Labeau, Hélène Flamein, Luce Lefeuvre, and Chloé Clavel. 2021. Meta-learning for Classifying Previously Unseen Data Source into Previously Unseen Emotional Categories. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Meta Learning and Its Applications to Natural Language Processing, pages 76–89, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Meta-learning for Classifying Previously Unseen Data Source into Previously Unseen Emotional Categories (Guibon et al., MetaNLP 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.metanlp-1.9.pdf
Code
 gguibon/metalearning-emotion-datasource
Data
DailyDialogFewRelGoEmotions