BITS Pilani at SemEval-2024 Task 10: Fine-tuning BERT and Llama 2 for Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Abstract

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC)aims to assign an emotion to a dialogue in aconversation between people. The first subtaskof EDiReF shared task aims to assign an emo-tions to a Hindi-English code mixed conversa-tion. For this, our team proposes a system toidentify the emotion based on fine-tuning largelanguage models on the MaSaC dataset. Forour study we have fine tuned 2 LLMs BERTand Llama 2 to perform sequence classification to identify the emotion of the text.