EmoSense at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Bidirectional LSTM Network for Contextual Emotion Detection in Textual Conversations

Sergey Smetanin


Abstract
In this paper, we describe a deep-learning system for emotion detection in textual conversations that participated in SemEval-2019 Task 3 “EmoContext”. We designed a specific architecture of bidirectional LSTM which allows not only to learn semantic and sentiment feature representation, but also to capture user-specific conversation features. To fine-tune word embeddings using distant supervision we additionally collected a significant amount of emotional texts. The system achieved 72.59% micro-average F1 score for emotion classes on the test dataset, thereby significantly outperforming the officially-released baseline. Word embeddings and the source code were released for the research community.
Anthology ID:
S19-2034
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:
210–214
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2034
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2034
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Sergey Smetanin. 2019. EmoSense at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Bidirectional LSTM Network for Contextual Emotion Detection in Textual Conversations. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 210–214, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
EmoSense at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Bidirectional LSTM Network for Contextual Emotion Detection in Textual Conversations (Smetanin, SemEval 2019)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2034.pdf
Code
 sismetanin/emosense-semeval2019-task3-emocontext
Data
EmoContext