In plain words: A word vector that captures emotion, trained at once on six different emotion tasks instead of on one. It beats existing emotion vectors trained on far larger text collections, and matches top results when added to standard word vectors with a simple classifier.
Abstract · Emo2Vec: Learning Generalized Emotion Representation by Multi-task Training
In this paper, we propose Emo2Vec which encodes emotional semantics into vectors. We train Emo2Vec by multi-task learning six different emotion-related tasks, including emotion/sentiment analysis, sarcasm classification, stress detection, abusive language classification, insult detection, and personality recognition. Our evaluation of Emo2Vec shows that it outperforms existing affect-related representations, such as Sentiment-Specific Word Embedding and DeepMoji embeddings with much smaller training corpora. When concatenated with GloVe, Emo2Vec achieves competitive performances to state-of-the-art results on several tasks using a simple logistic regression classifier.
Peng Xu, Andrea Madotto, Chien-Sheng Wu, Ji Ho Park, Pascale Fung
arXiv:1809.04505 · cs.CL · submitted Sep 12, 2018
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted by 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis(WASSA) in EMNLP 2018