CS-UM6P at SemEval-2021 Task 7: Deep Multi-Task Learning Model for Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense

Kabil Essefar, Abdellah El Mekki, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Nabil El Mamoun, Ismail Berrada


Abstract
Humor detection has become a topic of interest for several research teams, especially those involved in socio-psychological studies, with the aim to detect the humor and the temper of a targeted population (e.g. a community, a city, a country, the employees of a given company). Most of the existing studies have formulated the humor detection problem as a binary classification task, whereas it revolves around learning the sense of humor by evaluating its different degrees. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep Multi-Task Learning (MTL) model to detect and rate humor and offense. It consists of a pre-trained transformer encoder and task-specific attention layers. The model is trained using MTL uncertainty loss weighting to adaptively combine all sub-tasks objective functions. Our MTL model tackles all sub-tasks of the SemEval-2021 Task-7 in one end-to-end deep learning system and shows very promising results.
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2021.semeval-1.159
Volume:
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
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Online
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Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Natalie Schluter, Guy Emerson, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1135–1140
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.159
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.semeval-1.159
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Kabil Essefar, Abdellah El Mekki, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Nabil El Mamoun, and Ismail Berrada. 2021. CS-UM6P at SemEval-2021 Task 7: Deep Multi-Task Learning Model for Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021), pages 1135–1140, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CS-UM6P at SemEval-2021 Task 7: Deep Multi-Task Learning Model for Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense (Essefar et al., SemEval 2021)
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