@inproceedings{liu-jaidka-2023-psyam,
    title = "{I} am {P}sy{AM}: Modeling Happiness with Cognitive Appraisal Dimensions",
    author = "Liu, Xuan  and
      Jaidka, Kokil",
    editor = "Rogers, Anna  and
      Boyd-Graber, Jordan  and
      Okazaki, Naoaki",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/2023.findings-acl.77/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.77",
    pages = "1192--1210",
    abstract = "This paper proposes and evaluates PsyAM (\url{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/BERT-PsyAM-10B9}), a framework that incorporates adaptor modules in a sequential multi-task learning setup to generate high-dimensional feature representations of hedonic well-being (momentary happiness) in terms of its psychological underpinnings. PsyAM models emotion in text through its cognitive antecedents through auxiliary models that achieve multi-task learning through novel feature fusion methods. We show that BERT-PsyAM has cross-task validity and cross-domain generalizability through experiments with emotion-related tasks {--} on new emotion tasks and new datasets, as well as against traditional methods and BERT baselines. We further probe the robustness of BERT-PsyAM through feature ablation studies, as well as discuss the qualitative inferences we can draw regarding the effectiveness of the framework for representing emotional states. We close with a discussion of a future agenda of psychology-inspired neural network architectures."
}