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title = "Team Bias Busters at {WASSA} 2023 Empathy, Emotion and Personality Shared Task: Emotion Detection with Generative Pretrained Transformers",
author = "Nedilko, Andrew and
Chu, Yi",
editor = "Barnes, Jeremy and
De Clercq, Orph{\'e}e and
Klinger, Roman",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, {\&} Social Media Analysis",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.wassa-1.53/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.wassa-1.53",
pages = "569--573",
abstract = "This paper describes the approach that we used to take part in the multi-label multi-class emotion classification as Track 3 of the WASSA 2023 Empathy, Emotion and Personality Shared Task at ACL 2023. The overall goal of this track is to build models that can predict 8 classes (7 emotions + neutral) based on short English essays written in response to news article that talked about events perceived as harmful to people. We used OpenAI generative pretrained transformers with full-scale APIs for the emotion prediction task by fine-tuning a GPT-3 model and doing prompt engineering for zero-shot / few-shot learning with ChatGPT and GPT-4 models based on multiple experiments on the dev set. The most efficient method was fine-tuning a GPT-3 model which allowed us to beat our baseline character-based XGBoost Classifier and rank 2nd among all other participants by achieving a macro F1 score of 0.65 and a micro F1 score of 0.7 on the final blind test set."
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%A Chu, Yi
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%Y De Clercq, Orphée
%Y Klinger, Roman
%S Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis
%D 2023
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Toronto, Canada
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%R 10.18653/v1/2023.wassa-1.53
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.wassa-1.53/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.wassa-1.53
%P 569-573
Markdown (Informal)
[Team Bias Busters at WASSA 2023 Empathy, Emotion and Personality Shared Task: Emotion Detection with Generative Pretrained Transformers](https://aclanthology.org/2023.wassa-1.53/) (Nedilko & Chu, WASSA 2023)
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