Peter Lacko


2019

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NL-FIIT at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Emotion Detection From Conversational Triplets Using Hierarchical Encoders
Michal Farkas | Peter Lacko
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

In this paper, we present our system submission for the EmoContext, the third task of the SemEval 2019 workshop. Our solution is a hierarchical recurrent neural network with ELMo embeddings and regularization through dropout and Gaussian noise. We have mainly experimented with two main model architectures: simple and hierarchical LSTM network. We have also examined ensembling of the models and various variants of an ensemble. We have achieved microF1 score of 0.7481, which is significantly higher than baseline and currently the 19th best submission.

2018

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NL-FIIT at IEST-2018: Emotion Recognition utilizing Neural Networks and Multi-level Preprocessing
Samuel Pecar | Michal Farkas | Marian Simko | Peter Lacko | Maria Bielikova
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis

In this paper, we present neural models submitted to Shared Task on Implicit Emotion Recognition, organized as part of WASSA 2018. We propose a Bi-LSTM architecture with regularization through dropout and Gaussian noise. Our models use three different embedding layers: GloVe word embeddings trained on Twitter dataset, ELMo embeddings and also sentence embeddings. We see preprocessing as one of the most important parts of the task. We focused on handling emojis, emoticons, hashtags, and also various shortened word forms. In some cases, we proposed to remove some parts of the text, as they do not affect emotion of the original sentence. We also experimented with other modifications like category weights for learning and stacking multiple layers. Our model achieved a macro average F1 score of 65.55%, significantly outperforming the baseline model produced by a simple logistic regression.