Findings of the Shared Task on Emotion Analysis in Tamil

This paper presents the overview of the shared task on emotional analysis in Tamil at DravidianLangTech-ACL 2022. This overview paper presents the dataset used in the shared task, task description, the methodologies used by the participants and the evaluation results of the submissions. Emotion analysis in Tamil shared task consists of two sub tasks. Task A aims to categorize the social media comments in Tamil to 11 emotions and Task B aims to categorize the comments into 31 fine-grained emotions. For conducting experiments, training and development datasets were provided to the participants and results are evaluated for the unseen data. In total, we have received around 24 submissions from 13 teams. For evaluating the models, Precision, Recall, micro average metrics are used.