Zhenmei at WASSA-2024 Empathy and Personality Shared Track 2 Incorporating Pearson Correlation Coefficient as a Regularization Term for Enhanced Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversational Turns

Liting Huang, Huizhi Liang


Abstract
In the realm of conversational empathy and emotion prediction, emotions are frequently categorized into multiple levels. This study seeks to enhance the performance of emotion prediction models by incorporating the Pearson correlation coefficient as a regularization term within the loss function. This regularization approach ensures closer alignment between predicted and actual emotion levels, mitigating extreme predictions and resulting in smoother and more consistent outputs. Such outputs are essential for capturing the subtle transitions between continuous emotion levels. Through experimental comparisons between models with and without Pearson regularization, our findings demonstrate that integrating the Pearson correlation coefficient significantly boosts model performance, yielding higher correlation scores and more accurate predictions. Our system officially ranked 9th at the Track 2: CONV-turn. The code for our model can be found at Link .
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2024.wassa-1.34
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Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis
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August
Year:
2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Orphée De Clercq, Valentin Barriere, Jeremy Barnes, Roman Klinger, João Sedoc, Shabnam Tafreshi
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WASSA | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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399–403
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.wassa-1.34
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.wassa-1.34
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Liting Huang and Huizhi Liang. 2024. Zhenmei at WASSA-2024 Empathy and Personality Shared Track 2 Incorporating Pearson Correlation Coefficient as a Regularization Term for Enhanced Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversational Turns. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 399–403, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Zhenmei at WASSA-2024 Empathy and Personality Shared Track 2 Incorporating Pearson Correlation Coefficient as a Regularization Term for Enhanced Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversational Turns (Huang & Liang, WASSA-WS 2024)
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