NU at WASSA 2024 Empathy and Personality Shared Task: Enhancing Personality Predictions with Knowledge Graphs; A Graphical Neural Network and LightGBM Ensemble Approach

Emmanuel Osei-Brefo, Huizhi Liang


Abstract
This paper proposes a novel ensemble approach that combines Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and LightGBM to enhance personality prediction based on the personality Big 5 model. By integrating BERT embeddings from user essays with knowledge graph-derived embeddings, our method accurately captures rich semantic and relational information. Additionally, a special loss function that combines Mean Squared Error (MSE), Pearson correlation loss, and contrastive loss to improve model performance is introduced. The proposed ensemble model, made of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), Graph Attention Networks (GATs), and LightGBM, demonstrates superior performance over other models, with significant improvements in prediction accuracy for the Big Five personality traits achieved. Our system officially ranked 2nd at the Track 4: PER track.
Anthology ID:
2024.wassa-1.36
Volume:
Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis
Month:
August
Year:
2024
Address:
Bangkok, Thailand
Editors:
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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Pages:
412–419
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.wassa-1.36
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.wassa-1.36
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Emmanuel Osei-Brefo and Huizhi Liang. 2024. NU at WASSA 2024 Empathy and Personality Shared Task: Enhancing Personality Predictions with Knowledge Graphs; A Graphical Neural Network and LightGBM Ensemble Approach. In Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 412–419, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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NU at WASSA 2024 Empathy and Personality Shared Task: Enhancing Personality Predictions with Knowledge Graphs; A Graphical Neural Network and LightGBM Ensemble Approach (Osei-Brefo & Liang, WASSA-WS 2024)
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