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FEEL-IT: Emotion and Sentiment Classification for the Italian Language

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 …

MilaNLP @ WASSA: Does BERT Feel Sad When You Cry?

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 …

Cross-lingual Contextualized Topic Models with Zero-shot Learning

We introduce a novel topic modeling method that can make use of contextulized embeddings (e.g., BERT) to do zero-shot cross-lingual topic modeling.

AMI @ EVALITA2020: Automatic Misogyny Identification

**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 …

Which Matters Most? Comparing the Impact of Concept and Document Relationships in Topic Models

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. …

Profiling Italian Misogynist: An Empirical Study

**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 …

What the [MASK]? Making Sense of Language-Specific BERT Models

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 …