HIT-SCIR at WASSA 2023: Empathy and Emotion Analysis at the Utterance-Level and the Essay-Level

Xin Lu, Zhuojun Li, Yanpeng Tong, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin · 2023

This paper introduces the participation of team HIT-SCIR to the WASSA 2023 Shared Task on Empathy Detection and Emotion Classification and Personality Detection in Interactions.We focus on three tracks: Track 1 (Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversations, CONV), Track 2 (Empathy Prediction, EMP) and Track 3 (Emotion Classification, EMO), and designed three different models to address them separately.For Track 1, we designed a direct finetuning DeBERTa model for three regression tasks at the utterance-level.For Track 2, we designed a multi-task learning RoBERTa model for two regression tasks at the essay-level.For Track 3, we designed a RoBERTa model with data augmentation for the classification task at the essay-level.Finally, our team ranked 1st in the Track 1 (CONV), 5th in the Track 2 (EMP) and 3rd in the Track 3 (EMO) in the evaluation phase.

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