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Emotion cause analysis has received considerable attention in recent years. Previous studies primarily focused on emotion cause extraction from texts in news articles or microblogs. It is also interesting to discover emotions and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Fanfan Wang , Zixiang Ding , Rui Xia , Zhaoyu Li , Jianfei Yu

In our everyday lives and social interactions we often try to perceive the emotional states of people. There has been a lot of research in providing machines with a similar capacity of recognizing emotions. From a computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Ronak Kosti , Jose M. Alvarez , Adria Recasens , Agata Lapedriza

Predicting emotions expressed in text is a well-studied problem in the NLP community. Recently there has been active research in extracting the cause of an emotion expressed in text. Most of the previous work has done causal emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Ashwani Bhat , Ashutosh Modi

Understanding emotions in natural language is inherently a multi-dimensional reasoning problem, where multiple affective signals interact through context, interpersonal relations, and situational cues. However, most existing emotion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hemanth Kotaprolu , Kishan Maharaj , Raey Zhao , Abhijit Mishra , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

This paper introduces a new video-and-language dataset with human actions for multimodal logical inference, which focuses on intentional and aspectual expressions that describe dynamic human actions. The dataset consists of 200 videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Riko Suzuki , Hitomi Yanaka , Koji Mineshima , Daisuke Bekki

Emotion cause analysis such as emotion cause extraction (ECE) and emotion-cause pair extraction (ECPE) have gradually attracted the attention of many researchers. However, there are still two shortcomings in the existing research: 1) In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Hongliang Bi , Pengyuan Liu

Past shared tasks on emotions use data with both overt expressions of emotions (I am so happy to see you!) as well as subtle expressions where the emotions have to be inferred, for instance from event descriptions. Further, most datasets do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Roman Klinger , Orphée De Clercq , Saif M. Mohammad , Alexandra Balahur

The Emotion Cause Extraction (ECE)} task aims to identify clauses which contain emotion-evoking information for a particular emotion expressed in text. We observe that a widely-used ECE dataset exhibits a bias that the majority of annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Gabriele Pergola , Yulan He

Most existing emotion analysis emphasizes which emotion arises (e.g., happy, sad, angry) but neglects the deeper why. We propose Emotion Interpretation (EI), focusing on causal factors-whether explicit (e.g., observable objects,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yuxiang Lin , Jingdong Sun , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jue Wang , Haomin Liang , Zebang Cheng , Yifei Dong , Jun-Yan He , Xiaojiang Peng , Xian-Sheng Hua

Emotion detection is an established NLP task of demonstrated utility for text understanding. However, basic emotion detection leaves out key information, namely, who is experiencing the emotion in question. For example, it may be the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Samira Zad , Joshuan Jimenez , Mark A. Finlayson

Emotion is a crucial phenomenon in the functioning of human beings in society. However, it remains a widely open subject, particularly in its textual manifestations. This paper examines an industrial corpus manually annotated following an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jonas Noblet

Temporal context is key to the recognition of expressions of emotion. Existing methods, that rely on recurrent or self-attention models to enforce temporal consistency, work on the feature level, ignoring the task-specific temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Enrique Sanchez , Mani Kumar Tellamekala , Michel Valstar , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Text data are being used as a lens through which human cognition can be studied at a large scale. Methods like emotion analysis are now in the standard toolkit of computational social scientists but typically rely on third-person annotation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Bennett Kleinberg

In this work, we tackle a problem of speech emotion classification. One of the issues in the area of affective computation is that the amount of annotated data is very limited. On the other hand, the number of ways that the same emotion can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Egor Lakomkin , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

This paper focuses on sentiment mining and sentiment correlation analysis of web events. Although neural network models have contributed a lot to mining text information, little attention is paid to analysis of the inter-sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Xinzhi Wang , Shengcheng Yuan , Hui Zhang , Yi Liu

Emotion analysis has been attracting researchers' attention. Most previous works in the artificial intelligence field focus on recognizing emotion rather than mining the reason why emotions are not or wrongly recognized. Correlation among…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Xinzhi Wang , Luyao Kou , Vijayan Sugumaran , Xiangfeng Luo , Hui Zhang

The task of Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction (ECPE) aims to extract all potential emotion-cause pairs of a document without any annotation of emotion or cause clauses. Previous approaches on ECPE have tried to improve conventional two-step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Huu-Hiep Nguyen , Minh-Tien Nguyen

In this paper, we describe our shared task submissions for Subtask 2 in CASE-2022, Event Causality Identification with Casual News Corpus. The challenge focused on the automatic detection of all cause-effect-signal spans present in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Martin Fajcik , Muskaan Singh , Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Esaú Villatoro-Tello , Sergio Burdisso , Petr Motlicek , Pavel Smrz

We introduce a novel Natural Language Processing (NLP) task called Guilt detection, which focuses on detecting guilt in text. We identify guilt as a complex and vital emotion that has not been previously studied in NLP, and we aim to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque , Nisar Hussain , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

Understanding causality is a core aspect of intelligence. The Event Causality Identification with Causal News Corpus Shared Task addresses two aspects of this challenge: Subtask 1 aims at detecting causal relationships in texts, and Subtask…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Timo Pierre Schrader , Simon Razniewski , Lukas Lange , Annemarie Friedrich