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Emotion cognition in large language models (LLMs) is crucial for enhancing performance across various applications, such as social media, human-computer interaction, and mental health assessment. We explore the current landscape of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Yuyan Chen , Yanghua Xiao

We explore the representational space of emotions by combining methods from different academic fields. Cognitive science has proposed appraisal theory as a view on human emotion with previous research showing how human-rated abstract event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Andres Campero , Bjarke Felbo , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Rebecca Saxe

Human emotion is expressed in many communication modalities and media formats and so their computational study is equally diversified into natural language processing, audio signal analysis, computer vision, etc. Similarly, the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

This paper delves into enhancing the classification performance on the GoEmotions dataset, a large, manually annotated dataset for emotion detection in text. The primary goal of this paper is to address the challenges of detecting subtle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kaipeng Wang , Zhi Jing , Yongye Su , Yikun Han

Background: Mentalization integrates cognitive, affective, and intersubjective components. Large Language Models (LLMs) display an increasing ability to generate reflective texts, raising questions regarding the relationship between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Stefano Epifani , Giuliano Castigliego , Laura Kecskemeti , Giuliano Razzicchia , Elisabeth Seiwald-Sonderegger

Neural models of dialog rely on generalized latent representations of language. This paper introduces a novel training procedure which explicitly learns multiple representations of language at several levels of granularity. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Shikib Mehri , Maxine Eskenazi

Affective computing seeks to support the holistic development of artificial intelligence by enabling machines to engage with human emotion. Recent foundation models, particularly large language models (LLMs), have been trained and evaluated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Sree Bhattacharyya , Evgenii Kuriabov , Lucas Craig , Tharun Dilliraj , Reginald B. Adams, , Jia Li , James Z. Wang

Compared to traditional sentiment analysis, which only considers text, multimodal sentiment analysis needs to consider emotional signals from multimodal sources simultaneously and is therefore more consistent with the way how humans process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Hao Yang , Yanyan Zhao , Yang Wu , Shilong Wang , Tian Zheng , Hongbo Zhang , Zongyang Ma , Wanxiang Che , Bing Qin

Modern neural language models (LMs) are powerful tools for modeling human sentence production and comprehension, and their internal representations are remarkably well-aligned with representations of language in the human brain. But to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Chengxu Zhuang , Evelina Fedorenko , Jacob Andreas

Neural network-based Open-ended conversational agents automatically generate responses based on predictive models learned from a large number of pairs of utterances. The generated responses are typically acceptable as a sentence but are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Chenyang Huang , Osmar R. Zaïane

With the advancement of large language models, many dialogue systems are now capable of providing reasonable and informative responses to patients' medical conditions. However, when patients consult their doctor, they may experience…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shang-Chi Tsai , Yun-Nung Chen

It is commonly assumed that language refers to high-level visual concepts while leaving low-level visual processing unaffected. This view dominates the current literature in computational models for language-vision tasks, where visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Harm de Vries , Florian Strub , Jérémie Mary , Hugo Larochelle , Olivier Pietquin , Aaron Courville

Large language models (LLMs) have offered new opportunities for emotional support, and recent work has shown that they can produce empathic responses to people in distress. However, long-term mental well-being requires emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Hongli Zhan , Allen Zheng , Yoon Kyung Lee , Jina Suh , Junyi Jessy Li , Desmond C. Ong

Most of the existing pre-trained language representation models neglect to consider the linguistic knowledge of texts, which can promote language understanding in NLP tasks. To benefit the downstream tasks in sentiment analysis, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Pei Ke , Haozhe Ji , Siyang Liu , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

Formal languages are an integral part of modeling and simulation. They allow the distillation of knowledge into concise simulation models amenable to automatic execution, interpretation, and analysis. However, the arguably most humanly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Justin N. Kreikemeyer , Miłosz Jankowski , Pia Wilsdorf , Adelinde M. Uhrmacher

To establish empathy with machines, it is essential to fully understand human emotional changes. However, research in multimodal emotion recognition often overlooks one problem: individual expressive traits vary significantly, which means…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kexue Wang , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang

Current research efforts are focused on enhancing the thinking and reasoning capability of large language model (LLM) by prompting, data-driven emergence and inference-time computation. In this study, we consider stimulating language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Ningyuan Xi , Xiaoyu Wang , Yetao Wu , Teng Chen , Qingqing Gu , Yue Zhao , Jinxian Qu , Zhonglin Jiang , Yong Chen , Luo Ji

Purpose: Emotion is a fundamental component of human communication, shaping understanding, trust, and engagement across domains such as education, healthcare, and mental health. While large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yurui Dong , Luozhijie Jin , Yao Yang , Bingjie Lu , Jiaxi Yang , Zhi Liu

Effective emotional support hinges on understanding users' emotions and needs to provide meaningful comfort during multi-turn interactions. Large Language Models (LLMs) show great potential for expressing empathy; however, they often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jing Ye , Lu Xiang , Yaping Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Multimodal emotion understanding requires effective integration of text, audio, and visual modalities for both discrete emotion recognition and continuous sentiment analysis. We present EGMF, a unified framework combining expert-guided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiaqi Qiao , Xiujuan Xu , Xinran Li , Yu Liu