Anastasia Giachanou


2023

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On Text-based Personality Computing: Challenges and Future Directions
Qixiang Fang | Anastasia Giachanou | Ayoub Bagheri | Laura Boeschoten | Erik-Jan van Kesteren | Mahdi Shafiee Kamalabad | Daniel Oberski
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023

Text-based personality computing (TPC) has gained many research interests in NLP. In this paper, we describe 15 challenges that we consider deserving the attention of the NLP research community. These challenges are organized by the following topics: personality taxonomies, measurement quality, datasets, performance evaluation, modelling choices, as well as ethics and fairness. When addressing each challenge, not only do we combine perspectives from both NLP and social sciences, but also offer concrete suggestions. We hope to inspire more valid and reliable TPC research.

2020

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PRHLT-UPV at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Study of Multimodal Techniques for Memes Analysis
Gretel Liz De la Peña Sarracén | Paolo Rosso | Anastasia Giachanou
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

This paper describes the system submitted by the PRHLT-UPV team for the task 8 of SemEval-2020: Memotion Analysis. We propose a multimodal model that combines pretrained models of the BERT and VGG architectures. The BERT model is used to process the textual information and VGG the images. The multimodal model is used to classify memes according to the presence of offensive, sarcastic, humorous and motivating content. Also, a sentiment analysis of memes is carried out with the proposed model. In the experiments, the model is compared with other approaches to analyze the relevance of the multimodal model. The results show encouraging performances on the final leaderboard of the competition, reaching good positions in the ranking of systems.

2018

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USI-IR at IEST 2018: Sequence Modeling and Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Implicit Emotion Detection
Esteban Ríssola | Anastasia Giachanou | Fabio Crestani
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis

This paper describes the participation of USI-IR in WASSA 2018 Implicit Emotion Shared Task. We propose a relevance feedback approach employing a sequential model (biLSTM) and word embeddings derived from a large collection of tweets. To this end, we assume that the top-k predictions produce at a first classification step are correct (based on the model accuracy) and use them as new examples to re-train the network.