Overview of the WANLP 2021 Shared Task on Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic

Ibrahim Abu Farha, Wajdi Zaghouani, Walid Magdy

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Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the WANLP 2021 shared task on sarcasm and sentiment detection in Arabic. The shared task has two subtasks: Sarcasm detection (subtask 1) and sentiment analysis (subtask 2). This shared task aims to promote and bring attention to Arabic sarcasm detection, which is crucial to improve the performance in other tasks such as sentiment analysis. The dataset used in this shared task, namely ArSarcasm-v2, consists of 15,548 tweets labelled for sarcasm, sentiment and dialect. We received 27 and 22 submissions for subtasks 1 and 2 respectively. Most of the approaches relied on using and fine-tuning pre-trained language models such as AraBERT and MARBERT. The top achieved results for the sarcasm detection and sentiment analysis tasks were 0.6225 F1-score and 0.748 FPN 1 respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWANLP 2021 - 6th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsNizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Hazem Hajj, Walid Magdy, Wajdi Zaghouani, Fethi Bougares, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Samia Touileb
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages296-305
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781954085091
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event6th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, WANLP 2021 - Virtual, Kyiv, Ukraine
Duration: 19 Apr 2021 → …

Publication series

NameWANLP 2021 - 6th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference6th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, WANLP 2021
Country/TerritoryUkraine
CityVirtual, Kyiv
Period19/04/21 → …

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