Summary of Towards a Generative Approach For Emotion Detection and Reasoning, by Ankita Bhaumik et al.
Towards a Generative Approach for Emotion Detection and Reasoning
by Ankita Bhaumik, Tomek Strzalkowski
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates whether large language models (LLMs) can perform emotional reasoning using chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting techniques. To achieve this, it introduces a novel approach to zero-shot emotion detection and emotional reasoning. The existing state-of-the-art approaches rely on textual entailment models to choose the most appropriate emotion label for an input text. However, these models are restricted to a fixed set of labels, which may not be suitable or sufficient for many applications. Instead, the paper proposes framing the problem of emotion analysis as a generative question-answering (QA) task. The approach uses a two-step methodology of generating relevant context or background knowledge to answer the emotion detection question step-by-step. The paper evaluates its approach on two popular emotion detection datasets and releases fine-grained emotion labels and explanations for further training and fine-tuning of emotional reasoning systems. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper explores how big language models can understand emotions by breaking down complex problems into smaller steps. Currently, the best methods rely on a limited set of pre-defined emotions, but this approach doesn’t work well for all situations. To solve this issue, the researchers created a new way to analyze emotions by generating relevant background information and then answering questions about how an input text makes someone feel. This innovative approach helps LLMs understand emotions more accurately and is tested on two popular datasets. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Fine tuning * Prompting * Question answering * Zero shot
