Linguistic Fingerprint in Transformer Models: How Language Variation Influences Parameter Selection in Irony Detection

Michele Mastromattei, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto


Abstract
This paper explores the correlation between linguistic diversity, sentiment analysis and transformer model architectures. We aim to investigate how different English variations impact transformer-based models for irony detection. To conduct our study, we used the EPIC corpus to extract five diverse English variation-specific datasets and applied the KEN pruning algorithm on five different architectures. Our results reveal several similarities between optimal subnetworks, which provide insights into the linguistic variations that share strong resemblances and those that exhibit greater dissimilarities. We discovered that optimal subnetworks across models share at least 60% of their parameters, emphasizing the significance of parameter values in capturing and interpreting linguistic variations. This study highlights the inherent structural similarities between models trained on different variants of the same language and also the critical role of parameter values in capturing these nuances.
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2024.nlperspectives-1.14
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Gavin Abercrombie, Valerio Basile, Davide Bernadi, Shiran Dudy, Simona Frenda, Lucy Havens, Sara Tonelli
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Michele Mastromattei and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto. 2024. Linguistic Fingerprint in Transformer Models: How Language Variation Influences Parameter Selection in Irony Detection. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 123–130, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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