@inproceedings{butala-etal-2021-team,
    title = "Team Phoenix at {WASSA} 2021: Emotion Analysis on News Stories with Pre-Trained Language Models",
    author = "Butala, Yash  and
      Singh, Kanishk  and
      Kumar, Adarsh  and
      Shrivastava, Shrey",
    editor = "De Clercq, Orphee  and
      Balahur, Alexandra  and
      Sedoc, Joao  and
      Barriere, Valentin  and
      Tafreshi, Shabnam  and
      Buechel, Sven  and
      Hoste, Veronique",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis",
    month = apr,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2021.wassa-1.30/",
    pages = "274--280",
    abstract = "Emotion is fundamental to humanity. The ability to perceive, understand and respond to social interactions in a human-like manner is one of the most desired capabilities in artificial agents, particularly in social-media bots. Over the past few years, computational understanding and detection of emotional aspects in language have been vital in advancing human-computer interaction. The WASSA Shared Task 2021 released a dataset of news-stories across two tracks, Track-1 for Empathy and Distress Prediction and Track-2 for Multi-Dimension Emotion prediction at the essay-level. We describe our system entry for the WASSA 2021 Shared Task (for both Track-1 and Track-2), where we leveraged the information from Pre-trained language models for Track-specific Tasks. Our proposed models achieved an Average Pearson Score of 0.417, and a Macro-F1 Score of 0.502 in Track 1 and Track 2, respectively. In the Shared Task leaderboard, we secured the fourth rank in Track 1 and the second rank in Track 2."
}