XLM-EMO: Multilingual Emotion Prediction in Social Media Text

Federico Bianchi, Debora Nozza, Dirk Hovy


Abstract
Detecting emotion in text allows social and computational scientists to study how people behave and react to online events. However, developing these tools for different languages requires data that is not always available. This paper collects the available emotion detection datasets across 19 languages. We train a multilingual emotion prediction model for social media data, XLM-EMO. The model shows competitive performance in a zero-shot setting, suggesting it is helpful in the context of low-resource languages. We release our model to the community so that interested researchers can directly use it.
Anthology ID:
2022.wassa-1.18
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Jeremy Barnes, Orphée De Clercq, Valentin Barriere, Shabnam Tafreshi, Sawsan Alqahtani, João Sedoc, Roman Klinger, Alexandra Balahur
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WASSA
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
195–203
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.18
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.wassa-1.18
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Cite (ACL):
Federico Bianchi, Debora Nozza, and Dirk Hovy. 2022. XLM-EMO: Multilingual Emotion Prediction in Social Media Text. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis, pages 195–203, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
XLM-EMO: Multilingual Emotion Prediction in Social Media Text (Bianchi et al., WASSA 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.18.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.18.mp4
Code
 milanlproc/xlm-emo