UWat-Emote at EmoInt-2017: Emotion Intensity Detection using Affect Clues, Sentiment Polarity and Word Embeddings

Vineet John, Olga Vechtomova


Abstract
This paper describes the UWaterloo affect prediction system developed for EmoInt-2017. We delve into our feature selection approach for affect intensity, affect presence, sentiment intensity and sentiment presence lexica alongside pre-trained word embeddings, which are utilized to extract emotion intensity signals from tweets in an ensemble learning approach. The system employs emotion specific model training, and utilizes distinct models for each of the emotion corpora in isolation. Our system utilizes gradient boosted regression as the primary learning technique to predict the final emotion intensities.
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W17-5235
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Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
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September
Year:
2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Alexandra Balahur, Saif M. Mohammad, Erik van der Goot
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WASSA
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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249–254
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-5235
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-5235
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Vineet John and Olga Vechtomova. 2017. UWat-Emote at EmoInt-2017: Emotion Intensity Detection using Affect Clues, Sentiment Polarity and Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, pages 249–254, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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UWat-Emote at EmoInt-2017: Emotion Intensity Detection using Affect Clues, Sentiment Polarity and Word Embeddings (John & Vechtomova, WASSA 2017)
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