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Curtin OCAI at WASSA 2023 Empathy, Emotion and Personality Shared Task: Demographic-Aware Prediction Using Multiple Transformers

Md Rakibul Hasan, Md Zakir Hossain, Tom Gedeon, Susannah Soon, Shafin Rahman


Abstract
The WASSA 2023 shared task on predicting empathy, emotion and other personality traits consists of essays, conversations and articles in textual form and participants’ demographic information in numerical form. To address the tasks, our contributions include (1) converting numerical information into meaningful text information using appropriate templates, (2) summarising lengthy articles, and (3) augmenting training data by paraphrasing. To achieve these contributions, we leveraged two separate T5-based pre-trained transformers. We then fine-tuned pre-trained BERT, DistilBERT and ALBERT for predicting empathy and personality traits. We used the Optuna hyperparameter optimisation framework to fine-tune learning rates, batch sizes and weight initialisation. Our proposed system achieved its highest performance – a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.750 – on the onversation-level empathy prediction task1 . The system implementation is publicly available at https: //github.com/hasan-rakibul/WASSA23-empathy-emotion.
Anthology ID:
2023.wassa-1.47
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis
Month:
July
Year:
2023
Address:
Toronto, Canada
Editors:
Jeremy Barnes, Orphée De Clercq, Roman Klinger
Venue:
WASSA
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
536–541
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.wassa-1.47
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.wassa-1.47
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Cite (ACL):
Md Rakibul Hasan, Md Zakir Hossain, Tom Gedeon, Susannah Soon, and Shafin Rahman. 2023. Curtin OCAI at WASSA 2023 Empathy, Emotion and Personality Shared Task: Demographic-Aware Prediction Using Multiple Transformers. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, pages 536–541, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Curtin OCAI at WASSA 2023 Empathy, Emotion and Personality Shared Task: Demographic-Aware Prediction Using Multiple Transformers (Hasan et al., WASSA 2023)
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