NLP at IEST 2018: BiLSTM-Attention and LSTM-Attention via Soft Voting in Emotion Classification
Qimin Zhou, Hao Wu · 2018
This paper describes our method that competed at WASSA2018 Implicit Emotion Shared Task.The goal of this task is to classify the emotions of excluded words in tweets into six different classes: sad, joy, disgust, surprise, anger and fear.For this, we examine a BiL-STM architecture with attention mechanism (BiLSTM-Attention) and a LSTM architecture with attention mechanism (LSTM-Attention), and try different dropout rates based on these two models.We then exploit an ensemble of these methods to give the final prediction which improves the model performance significantly compared with the baseline model.The proposed method achieves 7 th position out of 30 teams and outperforms the baseline method by 12.5% in terms of macro F1.