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title = "Transformer-based Architecture for Empathy Prediction and Emotion Classification",
author = "Vasava, Himil and
Uikey, Pramegh and
Wasnik, Gaurav and
Sharma, Raksha",
editor = "Barnes, Jeremy and
De Clercq, Orph{\'e}e and
Barriere, Valentin and
Tafreshi, Shabnam and
Alqahtani, Sawsan and
Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o and
Klinger, Roman and
Balahur, Alexandra",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment {\&} Social Media Analysis",
month = may,
year = "2022",
address = "Dublin, Ireland",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.27",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.wassa-1.27",
pages = "261--264",
abstract = "This paper describes the contribution of team PHG to the WASSA 2022 shared task on Empathy Prediction and Emotion Classification. The broad goal of this task was to model an empathy score, a distress score and the type of emotion associated with the person who had reacted to the essay written in response to a newspaper article. We have used the RoBERTa model for training and top of which few layers are added to finetune the transformer. We also use few machine learning techniques to augment as well as upsample the data. Our system achieves a Pearson Correlation Coefficient of 0.488 on Task 1 (Empathy - 0.470 and Distress - 0.506) and Macro F1-score of 0.531 on Task 2.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Transformer-based Architecture for Empathy Prediction and Emotion Classification
%A Vasava, Himil
%A Uikey, Pramegh
%A Wasnik, Gaurav
%A Sharma, Raksha
%Y Barnes, Jeremy
%Y De Clercq, Orphée
%Y Barriere, Valentin
%Y Tafreshi, Shabnam
%Y Alqahtani, Sawsan
%Y Sedoc, João
%Y Klinger, Roman
%Y Balahur, Alexandra
%S Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis
%D 2022
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Dublin, Ireland
%F vasava-etal-2022-transformer
%X This paper describes the contribution of team PHG to the WASSA 2022 shared task on Empathy Prediction and Emotion Classification. The broad goal of this task was to model an empathy score, a distress score and the type of emotion associated with the person who had reacted to the essay written in response to a newspaper article. We have used the RoBERTa model for training and top of which few layers are added to finetune the transformer. We also use few machine learning techniques to augment as well as upsample the data. Our system achieves a Pearson Correlation Coefficient of 0.488 on Task 1 (Empathy - 0.470 and Distress - 0.506) and Macro F1-score of 0.531 on Task 2.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.wassa-1.27
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.27
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.wassa-1.27
%P 261-264
Markdown (Informal)
[Transformer-based Architecture for Empathy Prediction and Emotion Classification](https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.27) (Vasava et al., WASSA 2022)
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