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title: "Towards Sentiment and Emotion aided Multi-modal Speech Act"
description: "They build EmoTA, a subset of 6810 tweets drawn from SemEval-2018. 68.57 accuracy. 36 references, cited by 11 papers here."
authors: ["Tulika Saha", "Apoorva Upadhyaya", "Sriparna Saha", "Pushpak Bhattacharyya"]
year: 2021
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# Towards Sentiment and Emotion aided Multi-modal Speech Act Classification in Twitter

**Authors:** [Tulika Saha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tulika-saha/), Apoorva Upadhyaya, [Sriparna Saha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sriparna-saha/) and [Pushpak Bhattacharyya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pushpak-bhattacharyya/) · **Year:** 2021 · **Venue:** [Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) ([NAACL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2021/)) · **Publisher:** [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0 (ACL Anthology)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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## Summary
The paper addresses tweet act classification (TAC), which means identifying the speech act behind a tweet, such as a statement, question, request or threat. Earlier work handled TAC in isolation and on text alone. The authors argue that the writer's sentiment and emotion carry useful signal about intent, and that emojis add a nonverbal channel. They build EmoTA, a subset of 6810 tweets drawn from SemEval-2018. These tweets already had multi-label emotion tags, and the authors manually added tweet act labels and machine-derived (silver) sentiment labels. Their model is a multi-task, adversarially trained network built around a Dyadic Attention Mechanism (DAM). DAM attends within each modality (text, emoji) and across modalities. TAC is the main task, and Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition serve as helper tasks. The joint multi-modal setup consistently beats single-task and text-only versions and outperforms re-implemented earlier TAC systems on EmoTA. The work matters because it shows that affective signals can help recover pragmatic intent in short, noisy social-media text.

## Key points
- EmoTA: 6810 tweets, each with text and emoji as separate modalities. Labels cover 7 tweet act tags (sta, exp, que, req, sug, tht, oth), 11 multi-label emotion categories from SemEval-2018, and 3 sentiment tags.
- Three annotators trained in English linguistics labelled the tweet acts without seeing the emotion tags. Reliable agreement was set above 80%. Sentiment came from the IBM Watson classifier as silver labels.
- On the proposed model, a shared-private (SP) multi-task design worked better than a fully shared (FS) one, and adding an adversarial loss helped further. BERT text features outperformed GloVe.
- The proposed model reached 68.57 accuracy and 66.15 F1, against 67.10 / 65.00 for the strongest earlier TAC model re-implemented on EmoTA. Gains were checked with Welch's test.
- Adding emotion as a helper task gave larger gains than adding sentiment. Errors concentrated on rare classes (req, tht), on overlapping tags (sug mislabelled as exp), and on the shapeless "oth" class. The 5-class setup scored better than the 7-class setup.

## Interesting ideas
- Use the writer's affective state as an auxiliary prediction target, not just an input feature, so that intent recognition picks up correlated cues; fine-grained emotion helped more than coarse polarity.
- Annotators labelled speech acts without seeing the existing emotion tags, which prevents the two label layers from leaking into each other and creating artificial correlations.
- Treat emojis as their own modality with separate attention instead of flattening them into the word stream, and compare both options.
- Keep task-specific (private) parameters next to shared ones and add an adversarial loss so the shared space stays task-neutral; this suits weakly related tasks better than full sharing.
- The error analysis groups confusions by structural causes: class imbalance, tags that subsume one another, and a catch-all class with no pattern.

## For Mova

How these ideas could serve Mova, our small open language model — its files, stages and tests:

- **I1** (frames): The speech-act module in prag could jointly infer an emotion/attitude slot for the speaker and use it as evidence when choosing between expression, suggestion and threat readings.
- **I2** (learn): When the LLM teacher or human annotators add a new label layer to silver data, hide the correlated layers from them, so that any agreement measured between layers is genuine.
- **I3** (tokens): The tokenizer could tag emojis and similar nonverbal symbols as a distinct token class carrying attitude features, rather than treating them as unknown punctuation.
- **I4** (learn): When gparse is trained alongside auxiliary heads such as tagging or role labelling, a shared-private split could stop weakly related heads from degrading the parser.
- **I5** (frames): Audit the speech-act tag set for nested or catch-all categories and split or redefine them, so that each act has explainable, checkable criteria.

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## Cite

Cite as: Tulika Saha, Apoorva Upadhyaya, Sriparna Saha and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. 2021. Towards Sentiment and Emotion aided Multi-modal Speech Act Classification in Twitter. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.

The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

```bibtex
@inproceedings{saha2021sentiment,
  title = {{Towards Sentiment and Emotion aided Multi-modal Speech Act Classification in Twitter}},
  author = {Tulika Saha, Apoorva Upadhyaya, Sriparna Saha and Pushpak Bhattacharyya},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.456},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.456}
}
```

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