Understanding Emotion Valence is a Joint Deep Learning Task

Gabriel Roccabruna, Seyed Mahed Mousavi, Giuseppe Riccardi


Abstract
The valence analysis of speakers’ utterances or written posts helps to understand the activation and variations of the emotional state throughout the conversation. More recently, the concept of Emotion Carriers (EC) has been introduced to explain the emotion felt by the speaker and its manifestations. In this work, we investigate the natural inter-dependency of valence and ECs via a multi-task learning approach. We experiment with Pre-trained Language Models (PLM) for single-task, two-step, and joint settings for the valence and EC prediction tasks. We compare and evaluate the performance of generative (GPT-2) and discriminative (BERT) architectures in each setting. We observed that providing the ground truth label of one task improves the prediction performance of the models in the other task. We further observed that the discriminative model achieves the best trade-off of valence and EC prediction tasks in the joint prediction setting. As a result, we attain a single model that performs both tasks, thus, saving computation resources at training and inference times.
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2023.wassa-1.9
Volume:
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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85–95
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.wassa-1.9
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.wassa-1.9
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Gabriel Roccabruna, Seyed Mahed Mousavi, and Giuseppe Riccardi. 2023. Understanding Emotion Valence is a Joint Deep Learning Task. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 85–95, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Understanding Emotion Valence is a Joint Deep Learning Task (Roccabruna et al., WASSA 2023)
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