IUCL at WASSA 2022 Shared Task: A Text-only Approach to Empathy and Emotion Detection

Yue Chen, Yingnan Ju, Sandra Kübler


Abstract
Our system, IUCL, participated in the WASSA 2022 Shared Task on Empathy Detection and Emotion Classification. Our main goal in building this system is to investigate how the use of demographic attributes influences performance. Our (official) results show that our text-only systems perform very competitively, ranking first in the empathy detection task, reaching an average Pearson correlation of 0.54, and second in the emotion classification task, reaching a Macro-F of 0.572. Our systems that use both text and demographic data are less competitive.
Anthology ID:
2022.wassa-1.21
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis
Month:
May
Year:
2022
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Dublin, Ireland
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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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Association for Computational Linguistics
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228–232
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.21
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.wassa-1.21
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Yue Chen, Yingnan Ju, and Sandra Kübler. 2022. IUCL at WASSA 2022 Shared Task: A Text-only Approach to Empathy and Emotion Detection. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis, pages 228–232, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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IUCL at WASSA 2022 Shared Task: A Text-only Approach to Empathy and Emotion Detection (Chen et al., WASSA 2022)
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