LT3 at SemEval-2018 Task 1: A classifier chain to detect emotions in tweets

Luna De Bruyne, Orphée De Clercq, Véronique Hoste


Abstract
This paper presents an emotion classification system for English tweets, submitted for the SemEval shared task on Affect in Tweets, subtask 5: Detecting Emotions. The system combines lexicon, n-gram, style, syntactic and semantic features. For this multi-class multi-label problem, we created a classifier chain. This is an ensemble of eleven binary classifiers, one for each possible emotion category, where each model gets the predictions of the preceding models as additional features. The predicted labels are combined to get a multi-label representation of the predictions. Our system was ranked eleventh among thirty five participating teams, with a Jaccard accuracy of 52.0% and macro- and micro-average F1-scores of 49.3% and 64.0%, respectively.
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S18-1016
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
123–127
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https://aclanthology.org/S18-1016
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S18-1016
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Luna De Bruyne, Orphée De Clercq, and Véronique Hoste. 2018. LT3 at SemEval-2018 Task 1: A classifier chain to detect emotions in tweets. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 123–127, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LT3 at SemEval-2018 Task 1: A classifier chain to detect emotions in tweets (De Bruyne et al., SemEval 2018)
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