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Speech emotion recognition (SER), particularly for naturally expressed emotions, remains a challenging computational task. Key challenges include the inherent subjectivity in emotion annotation and the imbalanced distribution of emotion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tiantian Feng , Thanathai Lertpetchpun , Dani Byrd , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speech emotion analysis is an important task which further enables several application use cases. The non-verbal sounds within speech utterances also play a pivotal role in emotion analysis in speech. Due to the widespread use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Subham Banga , Ujjwal Upadhyay , Piyush Agarwal , Aniket Sharma , Prerana Mukherjee

This paper addresses the formulation of a new speaker identification approach which employs knowledge of emotional content of speaker information. Our proposed approach in this work is based on a two-stage recognizer that combines and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Ismail Shahin

We present Persian Question Answering Dataset (PQuAD), a crowdsourced reading comprehension dataset on Persian Wikipedia articles. It includes 80,000 questions along with their answers, with 25% of the questions being adversarially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Kasra Darvishi , Newsha Shahbodagh , Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Saeedeh Momtazi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across numerous languages; however, their effectiveness in low-resource languages like Persian requires thorough investigation. This paper presents a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Mahdi Cherakhloo , Arash Abbasi , Mohammad Saeid Sarafraz , Bijan Vosoughi Vahdat

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has been traditionally formulated as a classification task. However, emotions are generally a spectrum whose distribution varies from situation to situation leading to poor Out-of-Domain (OOD) performance.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hazim Bukhari , Soham Deshmukh , Hira Dhamyal , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

In recent years, significant progress has been made in automatic lip reading. But these methods require large-scale datasets that do not exist for many low-resource languages. In this paper, we have presented a new multipurpose audio-visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Javad Peymanfard , Samin Heydarian , Ali Lashini , Hossein Zeinali , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi , Nasser Mozayani

It is well known that emotion recognition performance is not ideal. The work of this research is devoted to improving emotion recognition performance by employing a two-stage recognizer that combines and integrates gender recognizer and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Ismail Shahin

Discovering what other people think has always been a key aspect of our information-gathering strategy. People can now actively utilize information technology to seek out and comprehend the ideas of others, thanks to the increased…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Waqar Ahmad , Maryam Edalati

Propaganda is a form of persuasion that has been used throughout history with the intention goal of influencing people's opinions through rhetorical and psychological persuasion techniques for determined ends. Although Arabic ranked as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Lubna Al-Henaki , Hend Al-Khalifa , Abdulmalik Al-Salman , Hajar Alqubayshi , Hind Al-Twailay , Gheeda Alghamdi , Hawra Aljasim

Over the past years, interest in discourse analysis and discourse parsing has steadily grown, and many discourse-annotated corpora and, as a result, discourse parsers have been built. In this paper, we present a discourse-annotated corpus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sara Shahmohammadi , Hadi Veisi , Ali Darzi

In the era of advanced artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, identifying emotions in spoken language is paramount. This research explores the integration of deep learning techniques in speech emotion recognition, offering…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hanan Hamza , Fiza Gafoor , Fathima Sithara , Gayathri Anil , V. S. Anoop

We present DementiaBank-Emotion, the first multi-rater emotion annotation corpus for Alzheimer's disease (AD) speech. Annotating 1,492 utterances from 108 speakers for Ekman's six basic emotions and neutral, we find that AD patients express…

Understanding emotion expressed in language has a wide range of applications, from building empathetic chatbots to detecting harmful online behavior. Advancement in this area can be improved using large-scale datasets with a fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Dorottya Demszky , Dana Movshovitz-Attias , Jeongwoo Ko , Alan Cowen , Gaurav Nemade , Sujith Ravi

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) aims to help the machine to understand human's subjective emotion from only audio information. However, extracting and utilizing comprehensive in-depth audio information is still a challenging task. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Heqing Zou , Yuke Si , Chen Chen , Deepu Rajan , Eng Siong Chng

In Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), textual data is often used alongside audio signals to address their inherent variability. However, the reliance on human annotated text in most research hinders the development of practical SER systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Yuanchao Li , Zeyu Zhao , Ondrej Klejch , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is typically trained and evaluated on majority-voted labels, which simplifies benchmarking but masks subjectivity and provides little transparency into why predictions are made. This neglects valid minority…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Bo-Hao Su , Hui-Ying Shih , Jinchuan Tian , Jiatong Shi , Chi-Chun Lee , Carlos Busso , Shinji Watanabe

In this project, we aim to classify the speech taken as one of the four emotions namely, sadness, anger, fear and happiness. The samples that have been taken to complete this project are taken from Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and UGA…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Manas Jain , Shruthi Narayan , Pratibha Balaji , Bharath K P , Abhijit Bhowmick , Karthik R , Rajesh Kumar Muthu

Access to informative databases is a crucial part of notable research developments. In the field of domestic audio classification, there have been significant advances in recent years. Although several audio databases exist, these can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-14 Abigail Copiaco , Christian Ritz , Stefano Fasciani , Nidhal Abdulaziz

Recent research has demonstrated the capability of physiological signals to infer both user emotional and attention responses. This presents an opportunity for leveraging widely available physiological sensors in smartwatches, to detect…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Kushan Choksi , Hongkai Chen , Karan Joshi , Sukrutha Jade , Shahriar Nirjon , Shan Lin