Intro

The files in this directory belong to the paper:

Dimensional Modeling of Emotions in Text with Appraisal Theories: Corpus Creation, Annotation Reliability, and Prediction.

by Enrica Troiano, Laura Oberländer and Roman Klinger

Content

This repository contains the code to reproduce and use our modeling experiments. In the following figure coming from our paper (as Figure 10) you can see our main experimental framework.

• a box in the depiction corresponds to a model (or a group of models for the case of the human evaluation).
• the head indicates data that directly stems from the generator of a textual instance.
• the lines correspond to the flow of information used by the box connected with an arrowhead.

The left-most model (1) represents the classification performance of the validators (readers) of crowd-enVENT. This shows how well people performed in the task undertaken by our computational models (2) to (7).

Each experiment or group of experiments is placed in a subdirectory of the repository. Each subdirectory usually contains the following files and folders:

• Makefile: A Makefile to reproduce the work
• scripts: Python code
• sources: a symlink to the toplevel sources folder, in which you need to place our corpus
• workdata: initially empty, this is where the experiment will store intermediary output files
• outputs: final output files (e.g. predictions, tables, etc.) of the experiments
  • predictions: Predictions produced by the original models
  • plots, tables
• README.md: specific information on how to run this experiment
• requirements.txt: Python dependencies

Data

1. Set up a virtual environment:
   • python3 -m venv venv
   • source venv/bin/activate
   • pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Download and prepare our corpus by calling make in the top-level folder.

Emotion and appraisals from text

Emotion labels:

["joy", "sadness", "surprise", "anger", "fear", "disgust", "relief", "guilt", "shame", "trust", "pride", "boredom", "no-emotion"]

Appraisal variables:

["suddenness", "familiarity", "predict_event", "pleasantness", "unpleasantness", "goal_relevance", "chance_responsblt" "self_responsblt", "other_responsblt", "predict_conseq", "goal_support", "urgency", "self_control", "other_control", "chance_control", "accept_conseq", "standards", "social_norms", "attention", "not_consider", "effort"]

Experiment (1) - Human evaluation for emotion and appraisal classification from text

Steps

1. cd human_evaluation
2. read the corresponding README and the Makefile

Experiment (2) - Emotion prediction from text

Experiment (3) - Appraisal prediction from text

Steps for experiments (2) and (3):

[A] Allennlp version:

1. cd emotions-and-appraisals-from-text
2. read the corresponding README and the Makefile
3. edit the schedule.sh and the evaluate.sh to include the classification and regression settings.

[B] Jiant version:

1. cd emotions-and-appraisals-from-text-jiant
2. read the corresponding README and the Makefile.

Emotion from appraisal values

Experiment (4) - Emotion prediction from predicted appraisal values

Experiment (5) - Emotion prediction from annotated appraisal values

Steps for experiments (4) and (5)

1. cd emotion-from-appraisal-values
2. read the README and follow the instructions there.

Emotion from text and appraisal values

Experiment (6) - Emotion prediction from predicted appraisal values and text

Experiment (7) - Emotion prediction from annotated appraisal values and text

Steps for experiments (6) and (7)

1. cd emotions-and-appraisals-from-text
2. read the corresponding README and the Makefile.
3. edit the schedule.sh and the evaluate.sh script to include only the combined setting.

Citation

Please cite this paper as:

@article{Troiano2023,
  author = {Enrica Troiano and Laura Oberl\"ander and Roman Klinger},
  title = {Dimensional Modeling of Emotions in Text with
                  Appraisal Theories: Corpus Creation, Annotation
                  Reliability, and Prediction},
  journal = {Computational Linguistics},
  number = 1,
  volume = 49,
  month = mar,
  year = 2023,
  address = {Cambridge, MA},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  doi = {10.1162/coli_a_00461},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00461},
}

Contact

For any questions regarding the paper don't hesitate contacting us at:

• enrica.troiano@ims.uni-stuttgart.de
• laura.oberlaender@ims.uni-stuttgart.de
• roman.klinger@ims.uni-stuttgart.de

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