Emotion-based Morality in Tagalog and English Scenarios (EMoTES-3K): A Parallel Corpus for Explaining (Im)morality of Actions

Jasper Kyle Catapang, Moses Visperas


Abstract
Grasping morality is vital in AI systems, particularly as they become more prevalent in human-focused applications. Yet, research is scarce on this topic. This study presents the Emotion-based Morality in Tagalog and English Scenarios (EMoTES-3K), a collection that shows commonsense morality in both Filipino and English. This dataset is instrumental for analyzing moral decisions in various situations and their justifications. Our tests show that EMoTES-3K is effective for moral text categorization, with the fine-tuned RoBERTa model scoring 94.95% accuracy in English and 88.53% in Filipino. The dataset also excels in text generation tasks, as shown by fine-tuning the FLAN-T5 model to produce clear moral explanations. However, the model faces challenges when dealing with actions that have mixed moral implications. This work not only bridges the gap in moral reasoning datasets for languages like Filipino but also sets the stage for future research in commonsense moral reasoning in artificial intelligence.
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2023.nlp4dh-1.1
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Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
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December
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2023
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Tokyo, Japan
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Mika Hämäläinen, Emily Öhman, Flammie Pirinen, Khalid Alnajjar, So Miyagawa, Yuri Bizzoni, Niko Partanen, Jack Rueter
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Jasper Kyle Catapang and Moses Visperas. 2023. Emotion-based Morality in Tagalog and English Scenarios (EMoTES-3K): A Parallel Corpus for Explaining (Im)morality of Actions. In Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, pages 1–6, Tokyo, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Emotion-based Morality in Tagalog and English Scenarios (EMoTES-3K): A Parallel Corpus for Explaining (Im)morality of Actions (Catapang & Visperas, NLP4DH-IWCLUL 2023)
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