An Ensemble Approach to Detect Emotions at an Essay Level
Himanshu Maheshwari, Vasudeva Varma · 2022
This paper describes our system (IREL, reffered as himanshu.1007on Codalab) for Shared Task on Empathy Detection, Emotion Classification, and Personality Detection at 12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis at ACL 2022.We participated in track 2 for predicting emotion at the essay level.We propose an ensemble approach that leverages the linguistic knowledge of the RoBERTa, BARTlarge, and RoBERTa model finetuned on the GoEmotions dataset.Each brings in its unique advantage, as we discuss in the paper.Our proposed system achieved a Macro F1 score of 0.585 and ranked one out of thirteen teams (the current top team on leaderboard submitted after the deadline).The code can be found here