MasonTigers at SemEval-2024 Task 10: Emotion Discovery and Flip Reasoning in Conversation with Ensemble of Transformers and Prompting

In this paper, we present MasonTigers' participation in SemEval-2024 Task 10, a shared task aimed at identifying emotions and understanding the rationale behind their flips within monolingual English and Hindi-English code-mixed dialogues. This task comprises three distinct subtasks - emotion recognition in conversation for Hindi-English code-mixed dialogues, emotion flip reasoning for Hindi-English code-mixed dialogues, and emotion flip reasoning for English dialogues. Our team, MasonTigers, contributed to each subtask, focusing on developing methods for accurate emotion recognition and reasoning. By leveraging our approaches, we attained impressive F1-scores of 0.78 for the first task and 0.79 for both the second and third tasks. This performance not only underscores the effectiveness of our methods across different aspects of the task but also secured us the top rank in the first and third subtasks, and the 2nd rank in the second subtask. Through extensive experimentation and analysis, we provide insights into our system's performance and contributions to each subtask.

EmoMix-3L: A Code-Mixed Dataset for Bangla-English-Hindi Emotion Detection

Code-mixing is a well-studied linguistic phenomenon that occurs when two or more languages are mixed in text or speech. Several studies have been conducted on building datasets and performing downstream NLP tasks on code-mixed data. Although it is not uncommon to observe code-mixing of three or more languages, most available datasets in this domain contain code-mixed data from only two languages. In this paper, we introduce EmoMix-3L, a novel multi-label emotion detection dataset containing code-mixed data from three different languages. We experiment with several models on EmoMix-3L and we report that MuRIL outperforms other models on this dataset.

CSEPrompts: A Benchmark of Introductory Computer Science Prompts

Recent advances in AI, machine learning, and NLP have led to the development of a new generation of Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on massive amounts of data and often have trillions of parameters. Commercial applications (e.g., ChatGPT) have made this technology available to the general public, thus making it possible to use LLMs to produce high-quality texts for academic and professional purposes. Schools and universities are aware of the increasing use of AI-generated content by students and they have been researching the impact of this new technology and its potential misuse. Educational programs in Computer Science (CS) and related fields are particularly affected because LLMs are also capable of generating programming code in various programming languages. To help understand the potential impact of publicly available LLMs in CS education, we introduce CSEPrompts, a framework with hundreds of programming exercise prompts and multiple-choice questions retrieved from introductory CS and programming courses. We also provide experimental results on CSEPrompts to evaluate the performance of several LLMs with respect to generating Python code and answering basic computer science and programming questions.