Unlocking Emotions in Text: A Fusion of Word Embeddings and Lexical Knowledge for Emotion Classification

Bhardwaj Anjali, Wasi Nesar Ahmad, Abulaish Muhammad


Abstract
This paper introduces an improved method for emotion classification through the integration of emotion lexicons and pre-trained word embeddings. The proposed method utilizes semantically similar features to reconcile the semantic gap between words and emotions. The proposed approach is compared against three baselines for predicting Ekman’s emotions at the document level on the GoEmotions dataset. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is assessed using standard evaluation metrics, which show at least a 5% gain in performance over baselines.
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2023.icon-1.78
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Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
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December
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2023
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Goa University, Goa, India
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D. Pawar Jyoti, Lalitha Devi Sobha
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ICON
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SIGLEX
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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766–772
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Bhardwaj Anjali, Wasi Nesar Ahmad, and Abulaish Muhammad. 2023. Unlocking Emotions in Text: A Fusion of Word Embeddings and Lexical Knowledge for Emotion Classification. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 766–772, Goa University, Goa, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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Unlocking Emotions in Text: A Fusion of Word Embeddings and Lexical Knowledge for Emotion Classification (Anjali et al., ICON 2023)
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