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This paper describes our deep learning-based approach to sentiment analysis in Twitter as part of SemEval-2016 Task 4. We use a convolutional neural network to determine sentiment and participate in all subtasks, i.e. two-point,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Sebastian Ruder , Parsa Ghaffari , John G. Breslin

Nowadays, offensive content in social media has become a serious problem, and automatically detecting offensive language is an essential task. In this paper, we build an offensive language detection system, which combines multi-task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenliang Dai , Tiezheng Yu , Zihan Liu , Pascale Fung

This paper describes the system developed at Amobee for the WASSA 2018 implicit emotions shared task (IEST). The goal of this task was to predict the emotion expressed by missing words in tweets without an explicit mention of those words.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Alon Rozental , Daniel Fleischer , Zohar Kelrich

This paper describes the UM-IU@LING's system for the SemEval 2019 Task 6: OffensEval. We take a mixed approach to identify and categorize hate speech in social media. In subtask A, we fine-tuned a BERT based classifier to detect abusive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jian Zhu , Zuoyu Tian , Sandra Kübler

Sentiment Analysis and other semantic tasks are commonly used for social media textual analysis to gauge public opinion and make sense from the noise on social media. The language used on social media not only commonly diverges from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Anirudh Dahiya , Neeraj Battan , Manish Shrivastava , Dipti Mishra Sharma

We describe the systems developed for the WNUT-2020 shared task 2, identification of informative COVID-19 English Tweets. BERT is a highly performant model for Natural Language Processing tasks. We increased BERT's performance in this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Dylan Whang , Soroush Vosoughi

In this article, we describe the system that we used for the memotion analysis challenge, which is Task 8 of SemEval-2020. This challenge had three subtasks where affect based sentiment classification of the memes was required along with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Sourya Dipta Das , Soumil Mandal

The present paper is about the participation of our team "techno" on CERIST'22 shared tasks. We used an available dataset "task1.c" related to covid-19 pandemic. It comprises 4128 tweets for sentiment analysis task and 8661 tweets for fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Rabia Bounaama , Mohammed El Amine Abderrahim

This paper presents the different models submitted by the LT@Helsinki team for the SemEval 2020 Shared Task 12. Our team participated in sub-tasks A and C; titled offensive language identification and offense target identification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Marc Pàmies , Emily Öhman , Kaisla Kajava , Jörg Tiedemann

We describe the design, the evaluation setup, and the results of the 2016 WMT shared task on cross-lingual pronoun prediction. This is a classification task in which participants are asked to provide predictions on what pronoun class label…

This paper describes the Duluth UROP systems that participated in SemEval--2018 Task 2, Multilingual Emoji Prediction. We relied on a variety of ensembles made up of classifiers using Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, and Random Forests. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Shuning Jin , Ted Pedersen

This paper describes our approach to submissions made at Shared Task 2 at BLP Workshop - Sentiment Analysis of Bangla Social Media Posts. Sentiment Analysis is an action research area in the digital age. With the rapid and constant growth…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pratinav Seth , Rashi Goel , Komal Mathur , Swetha Vemulapalli

We describe our system for WNUT-2020 shared task on the identification of informative COVID-19 English tweets. Our system is an ensemble of various machine learning methods, leveraging both traditional feature-based classifiers as well as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Abhilasha Sancheti , Kushal Chawla , Gaurav Verma

It is fairly common to use code-mixing on a social media platform to express opinions and emotions in multilingual societies. The purpose of this task is to detect the sentiment of code-mixed social media text. Code-mixed text poses a great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Jun Kong , Jin Wang , Xuejie Zhang

This paper presents a novel approach for multi-lingual sentiment classification in short texts. This is a challenging task as the amount of training data in languages other than English is very limited. Previously proposed multi-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jan Deriu , Aurelien Lucchi , Valeria De Luca , Aliaksei Severyn , Simon Müller , Mark Cieliebak , Thomas Hofmann , Martin Jaggi

This paper reports about our work in the NLP Tool Contest @ICON-2017, shared task on Sentiment Analysis for Indian Languages (SAIL) (code mixed). To implement our system, we have used a machine learning algo-rithm called Multinomial Na\"ive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Kamal Sarkar

We describe MITRE's submission to the SemEval-2016 Task 6, Detecting Stance in Tweets. This effort achieved the top score in Task A on supervised stance detection, producing an average F1 score of 67.8 when assessing whether a tweet author…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Guido Zarrella , Amy Marsh

Transliteration is very common on social media, but transliterated text is not adequately handled by modern neural models for various NLP tasks. In this work, we combine data augmentation approaches with a Teacher-Student training scheme to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Jitin Krishnan , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Hemant Purohit , Huzefa Rangwala

This paper describes our winning system on SemEval 2022 Task 7: Identifying Plausible Clarifications of Implicit and Underspecified Phrases in Instructional Texts. A replaced token detection pre-trained model is utilized with minorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Junyuan Shang , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Yanjun Yu , Yue Zhou , Li Xiang , Guixiu Yang

This paper presents the approach that we employed to tackle the EMNLP WNUT-2020 Shared Task 2 : Identification of informative COVID-19 English Tweets. The task is to develop a system that automatically identifies whether an English Tweet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Anshul Wadhawan