Emotion Recognition based on Psychological Components in Guided Narratives for Emotion Regulation

Gustave Cortal, Alain Finkel, Patrick Paroubek, Lina Ye


Abstract
Emotion regulation is a crucial element in dealing with emotional events and has positive effects on mental health. This paper aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of emotional events by introducing a new French corpus of emotional narratives collected using a questionnaire for emotion regulation. We follow the theoretical framework of the Component Process Model which considers emotions as dynamic processes composed of four interrelated components (behavior, feeling, thinking and territory). Each narrative is related to a discrete emotion and is structured based on all emotion components by the writers. We study the interaction of components and their impact on emotion classification with machine learning methods and pre-trained language models. Our results show that each component improves prediction performance, and that the best results are achieved by jointly considering all components. Our results also show the effectiveness of pre-trained language models in predicting discrete emotion from certain components, which reveal differences in how emotion components are expressed.
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2023.latechclfl-1.8
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Proceedings of the 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
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May
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2023
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz
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LaTeCHCLfL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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72–81
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10.18653/v1/2023.latechclfl-1.8
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Gustave Cortal, Alain Finkel, Patrick Paroubek, and Lina Ye. 2023. Emotion Recognition based on Psychological Components in Guided Narratives for Emotion Regulation. In Proceedings of the 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 72–81, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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