CIC@LT-EDI-ACL2022: Are transformers the only hope? Hope speech detection for Spanish and English comments

Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh


Abstract
Hope is an inherent part of human life and essential for improving the quality of life. Hope increases happiness and reduces stress and feelings of helplessness. Hope speech is the desired outcome for better and can be studied using text from various online sources where people express their desires and outcomes. In this paper, we address a deep-learning approach with a combination of linguistic and psycho-linguistic features for hope-speech detection. We report our best results submitted to LT-EDI-2022 which ranked 2nd and 3rd in English and Spanish respectively.
Anthology ID:
2022.ltedi-1.28
Volume:
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, B Bharathi, John P McCrae, Manel Zarrouk, Kalika Bali, Paul Buitelaar
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LTEDI
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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206–211
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.ltedi-1.28
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.ltedi-1.28
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Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Grigori Sidorov, and Alexander Gelbukh. 2022. CIC@LT-EDI-ACL2022: Are transformers the only hope? Hope speech detection for Spanish and English comments. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, pages 206–211, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CIC@LT-EDI-ACL2022: Are transformers the only hope? Hope speech detection for Spanish and English comments (Balouchzahi et al., LTEDI 2022)
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