Abstract
We introduce a new dataset for multi-class emotion analysis from long-form narratives in English. The Dataset for Emotions of Narrative Sequences (DENS) was collected from both classic literature available on Project Gutenberg and modern online narratives avail- able on Wattpad, annotated using Amazon Mechanical Turk. A number of statistics and baseline benchmarks are provided for the dataset. Of the tested techniques, we find that the fine-tuning of a pre-trained BERT model achieves the best results, with an average micro-F1 score of 60.4%. Our results show that the dataset provides a novel opportunity in emotion analysis that requires moving beyond existing sentence-level techniques.- Anthology ID:
- D19-1656
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Editors:
- Kentaro Inui, Jing Jiang, Vincent Ng, Xiaojun Wan
- Venues:
- EMNLP | IJCNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 6293–6298
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-1656
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-1656
- Cite (ACL):
- Chen Liu, Muhammad Osama, and Anderson De Andrade. 2019. DENS: A Dataset for Multi-class Emotion Analysis. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 6293–6298, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- DENS: A Dataset for Multi-class Emotion Analysis (Liu et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/teach-a-man-to-fish/D19-1656.pdf