DL Team at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Tweet Affect Detection using Sentiment Lexicons and Embeddings

Dmitry Kravchenko, Lidia Pivovarova


Abstract
The paper describes our approach for SemEval-2018 Task 1: Affect Detection in Tweets. We perform experiments with manually compelled sentiment lexicons and word embeddings. We test their performance on twitter affect detection task to determine which features produce the most informative representation of a sentence. We demonstrate that general-purpose word embeddings produces more informative sentence representation than lexicon features. However, combining lexicon features with embeddings yields higher performance than embeddings alone.
Anthology ID:
S18-1025
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
172–176
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S18-1025
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S18-1025
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Cite (ACL):
Dmitry Kravchenko and Lidia Pivovarova. 2018. DL Team at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Tweet Affect Detection using Sentiment Lexicons and Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 172–176, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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DL Team at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Tweet Affect Detection using Sentiment Lexicons and Embeddings (Kravchenko & Pivovarova, SemEval 2018)
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