CLARK at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Exploring the Role of Context to Identify Emotion in a Short Conversation

Joseph Cummings, Jason Wilson


Abstract
With text lacking valuable information avail-able in other modalities, context may provide useful information to better detect emotions. In this paper, we do a systematic exploration of the role of context in recognizing emotion in a conversation. We use a Naive Bayes model to show that inferring the mood of the conversation before classifying individual utterances leads to better performance. Additionally, we find that using context while train-ing the model significantly decreases performance. Our approach has the additional bene-fit that its performance rivals a baseline LSTM model while requiring fewer resources.
Anthology ID:
S19-2024
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Editors:
Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
Venue:
SemEval
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
159–163
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2024
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2024
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Cite (ACL):
Joseph Cummings and Jason Wilson. 2019. CLARK at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Exploring the Role of Context to Identify Emotion in a Short Conversation. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 159–163, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CLARK at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Exploring the Role of Context to Identify Emotion in a Short Conversation (Cummings & Wilson, SemEval 2019)
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https://aclanthology.org/S19-2024.pdf
Data
EmoContext