Emotion detection from text via ensemble classification using word embeddings

Jonathan Herzig, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, David Konopnicki

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Abstract

Emotion detection from text has become a popular task due to the key role of emotions in human-machine interaction. Current approaches represent text as a sparse bag-of-words vector. In this work, we propose a new approach that utilizes pre-trained, dense word embedding representations. We introduce an ensemble approach combining both sparse and dense representations. Our experiments include five datasets for emotion detection from different domains and show an average improvement of 11.6% in macro average F1-score.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICTIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages269-272
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450344906
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event7th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2017 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 1 Oct 20174 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameICTIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference7th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2017
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period1/10/174/10/17

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