Sentiment analysis is a common task to understand people's reactions online. Still, we often need more nuanced information: is the post negative because the user is angry or because they are sad? An abundance of approaches has been introduced for …
The paper describes the MilaNLP team’s submission (Bocconi University, Milan) in the WASSA 2021 Shared Task on Empathy Detection and Emotion Classification. We focus on Track 2 - Emotion Classification - which consists of predicting the emotion of …
**Automatic Misogyny Identification (AMI)** is a **shared task** proposed at the Evalita 2020 evaluation campaign. The AMI challenge, based on **Italian tweets**, is organized into two subtasks: (1) Subtask A about misogyny and aggressiveness …
Topic models have been widely used to discover hidden topics in a collection of documents. In this paper, we propose to investigate the role of two different types of relational information, i.e. document relationships and concept relationships. …
**Hate speech** may take different forms in online social environments. In this paper, we address the problem of automatic detection of misogynous language on **Italian tweets** by focusing both on raw text and stylometric profiles. The proposed …
Recently, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed an impressive progress in many areas, due to the advent of novel, pretrained contextual representation models. In particular, Devlin et al. (2019) proposed a model, called BERT (Bidirectional …