NCUEE-NLP at WASSA 2023 Shared Task 1: Empathy and Emotion Prediction Using Sentiment-Enhanced RoBERTa Transformers

Tzu-Mi Lin, Jung-Ying Chang, Lung-Hao Lee


Abstract
This paper describes our proposed system design for the WASSA 2023 shared task 1. We propose a unified architecture of ensemble neural networks to integrate the original RoBERTa transformer with two sentiment-enhanced RoBERTa-Twitter and EmoBERTa models. For Track 1 at the speech-turn level, our best submission achieved an average Pearson correlation score of 0.7236, ranking fourth for empathy, emotion polarity and emotion intensity prediction. For Track 2 at the essay-level, our best submission obtained an average Pearson correlation score of 0.4178 for predicting empathy and distress scores, ranked first among all nine submissions.
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2023.wassa-1.49
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Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Jeremy Barnes, Orphée De Clercq, Roman Klinger
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WASSA
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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548–552
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.wassa-1.49
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.wassa-1.49
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Tzu-Mi Lin, Jung-Ying Chang, and Lung-Hao Lee. 2023. NCUEE-NLP at WASSA 2023 Shared Task 1: Empathy and Emotion Prediction Using Sentiment-Enhanced RoBERTa Transformers. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 548–552, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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NCUEE-NLP at WASSA 2023 Shared Task 1: Empathy and Emotion Prediction Using Sentiment-Enhanced RoBERTa Transformers (Lin et al., WASSA 2023)
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