Language Models (Mostly) Do Not Consider Emotion Triggers When Predicting Emotion (2024.naacl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing work has sought to identify what triggers or causes a particular emotion, but the relationship between those triggers and the prediction of emotion detection models is little understood. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset to evaluate the ability of large language models to identify emotion triggers . they compare features considered important for emotion prediction models to those considered less salient . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset compares large language models and fine-tuned models on social media posts . it shows that emotion triggers are not considered salient features for emotion prediction models . |
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