---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
- token-classification
language:
- en
- nl
- ru
- es
- fr
tags:
- emotion
- explainability
- cross-lingual
pretty_name: exalt
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---
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<img src="https://lt3.ugent.be/exalt/img/emotions.jpg" alt="EXALT logo" width="150" style="margin-left:'auto' margin-right:'auto' display:'block'"/>
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# Dataset Card for EXALT-v1

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A cross-lingual Emotion Detection dataset with an explainability component ie. Trigger Word Detection. We provide training data in English along with test data in 5 languages (Dutch, Russian, Spanish, English, and French).

For additional details, please refer our website at: [lt3.ugent.be/exalt](lt3.ugent.be/exalt)
## Dataset Details



### Dataset Description

A cross-lingual emotion detection & explainability dataset, that consists of two sub-tasks:

- Cross-lingual emotion detection task: Predict for each tweet the correct emotion label from 6 possible classes: Love, Joy, Anger, Fear, Sadness, Neutral in five target languages. English train set of ~6000 tweets, which can be used for training and validation. Smaller test sets of ~500 tweets for each of the test languages.

- Predict the text span triggering the predicted emotion label: Trigger word detection, a token-classification task that is focused on explaining which words are used to express the emotion. Detailed information on how these trigger words have been labeled can be found in the [annotation guidelines](https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01HHSH3CDPHWA217Y73PHAVK5R).

- **Curated by:** [LT3 Ghent University](lt3.ugent.be)
- **Language(s) (NLP):** English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Russian
- **License:** CC4.0

### Dataset Sources [optional]

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- **Website** [lt3.ugent.be/exalt](lt3.ugent.be/exalt)
- **Shared Task** [Codalab EXALT v1](https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17730)
- **Paper:** [coming soon]

## Citation

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## Dataset Card Contact

[Aaron Maladry](mailto:aaron.maladry@ugent.be)
[Pranaydeep Singh](mailto:pranaydeep.singh@ugent.be)
[Els Lefever](mailto:els.lefever@ugent.be)