UWB at WASSA-2024 Shared Task 2: Cross-lingual Emotion Detection
Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2024) (2024)
Abstract
This paper presents our system built for the WASSA-2024 Cross-lingual Emotion Detection Shared Task. The task consists of two subtasks: first, to assess an emotion label from six possible classes for a given tweet in one of five languages, and second, to predict words triggering the detected emotions in binary and numerical formats. Our proposed approach revolves around fine-tuning quantized large language models, specifically Orca 2, with low-rank adapters (LoRA) and multilingual Transformer-based models, such as XLM-R and mT5. We enhance performance through machine translation for both subtasks and trigger word switching for the second subtask. The system achieves excellent performance, ranking 1st in numerical trigger words detection, 3rd in binary trigger words detection, and 7th in emotion detection.
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BibTex
@inproceedings{smid-etal-2024-uwb, title = "{UWB} at {WASSA}-2024 Shared Task 2: Cross-lingual Emotion Detection", author = "{\v{S}}m{\'\i}d, Jakub and P{\v{r}}ib{\'a}{\v{n}}, Pavel and Kr{\'a}l, Pavel", editor = "De Clercq, Orph{\'e}e and Barriere, Valentin and Barnes, Jeremy and Klinger, Roman and Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o and Tafreshi, Shabnam", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, {\&} Social Media Analysis", month = aug, year = "2024", address = "Bangkok, Thailand", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.wassa-1.47", pages = "483--489", abstract = "This paper presents our system built for the WASSA-2024 Cross-lingual Emotion Detection Shared Task. The task consists of two subtasks: first, to assess an emotion label from six possible classes for a given tweet in one of five languages, and second, to predict words triggering the detected emotions in binary and numerical formats. Our proposed approach revolves around fine-tuning quantized large language models, specifically Orca 2, with low-rank adapters (LoRA) and multilingual Transformer-based models, such as XLM-R and mT5. We enhance performance through machine translation for both subtasks and trigger word switching for the second subtask. The system achieves excellent performance, ranking 1st in numerical trigger words detection, 3rd in binary trigger words detection, and 7th in emotion detection.", }
