CARER: Contextualized Affect Representations for Emotion Recognition

Elvis Saravia, Hsien-Chi Toby Liu, Yen-Hao Huang, Junlin Wu, Yi-Shin Chen


Abstract
Emotions are expressed in nuanced ways, which varies by collective or individual experiences, knowledge, and beliefs. Therefore, to understand emotion, as conveyed through text, a robust mechanism capable of capturing and modeling different linguistic nuances and phenomena is needed. We propose a semi-supervised, graph-based algorithm to produce rich structural descriptors which serve as the building blocks for constructing contextualized affect representations from text. The pattern-based representations are further enriched with word embeddings and evaluated through several emotion recognition tasks. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques on emotion recognition tasks.
Anthology ID:
D18-1404
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
October-November
Year:
2018
Address:
Brussels, Belgium
Editors:
Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
Venue:
EMNLP
SIG:
SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
3687–3697
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D18-1404
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1404
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Cite (ACL):
Elvis Saravia, Hsien-Chi Toby Liu, Yen-Hao Huang, Junlin Wu, and Yi-Shin Chen. 2018. CARER: Contextualized Affect Representations for Emotion Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 3687–3697, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CARER: Contextualized Affect Representations for Emotion Recognition (Saravia et al., EMNLP 2018)
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Code
 dair-ai/emotion_dataset
Data
CARER