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People often utilise online media (e.g., Facebook, Reddit) as a platform to express their psychological distress and seek support. State-of-the-art NLP techniques demonstrate strong potential to automatically detect mental health issues…

Emotion is essential in spoken communication, yet most existing frameworks in speech emotion modeling rely on predefined categories or low-dimensional continuous attributes, which offer limited expressive capacity. Recent advances in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Tianhua Qi , Wenming Zheng , Björn W. Schuller , Zhaojie Luo , Haizhou Li

The increasing adoption of text-to-speech technologies has led to a growing demand for natural and emotive voices that adapt to a conversation's context and emotional tone. The Emotive Narrative Storytelling (EMNS) corpus is a unique speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Kari Ali Noriy , Xiaosong Yang , Jian Jun Zhang

The objective of this paper is to predict (A) whether a sentence in a written text expresses an emotion, (B) the mode(s) in which it is expressed, (C) whether it is basic or complex, and (D) its emotional category. One of our major…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aline Étienne , Delphine Battistelli , Gwénolé Lecorvé

Emotion lexicons describe the affective meaning of words and thus constitute a centerpiece for advanced sentiment and emotion analysis. Yet, manually curated lexicons are only available for a handful of languages, leaving most languages of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Sven Buechel , Susanna Rücker , Udo Hahn

Emotional language generation is one of the keys to human-like artificial intelligence. Humans use different type of emotions depending on the situation of the conversation. Emotions also play an important role in mediating the engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Sashank Santhanam , Samira Shaikh

The recognition of emotion and dialogue acts enriches conversational analysis and help to build natural dialogue systems. Emotion interpretation makes us understand feelings and dialogue acts reflect the intentions and performative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Chandrakant Bothe , Cornelius Weber , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

Emotion detection is a central problem in NLP, with recent progress driven by transformer-based models trained on established datasets. However, little is known about the linguistic regularities that characterize how emotions are expressed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Florian Lecourt , Madalina Croitoru , Konstantin Todorov

Canonical emotions, such as happy, sad, and fearful, are easy to understand and annotate. However, emotions are often compound, e.g. happily surprised, and can be mapped to the action units (AUs) used for expressing emotions, and trivially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Reni Paskaleva , Mykyta Holubakha , Andela Ilic , Saman Motamed , Luc Van Gool , Danda Paudel

Generating emotionally appropriate responses in conversations with large language models presents a significant challenge due to the complexities of human emotions and cognitive processes, which remain largely underexplored in their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 June M. Liu , He Cao , Renliang Sun , Rui Wang , Yu Li , Jiaxing Zhang

Humans are arguably innately prepared to comprehend others' emotional expressions from subtle body movements. If robots or computers can be empowered with this capability, a number of robotic applications become possible. Automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Yu Luo , Jianbo Ye , Reginald B. Adams, , Jia Li , Michelle G. Newman , James Z. Wang

The availability of large, high-quality emotional speech databases is essential for advancing speech emotion recognition (SER) in real-world scenarios. However, many existing databases face limitations in size, emotional balance, and…

In this article, we present the first in depth linguistic study of human feelings. While there has been substantial research on incorporating some affective categories into linguistic analysis (e.g. sentiment, and to a lesser extent,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Advaith Siddharthan , Nicolas Cherbuin , Paul J. Eslinger , Kasia Kozlowska , Nora A. Murphy , Leroy Lowe

Understanding emotions is fundamental to human interaction and experience. Humans easily infer emotions from situations or facial expressions, situations from emotions, and do a variety of other affective cognition. How adept is modern AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Kanishk Gandhi , Zoe Lynch , Jan-Philipp Fränken , Kayla Patterson , Sharon Wambu , Tobias Gerstenberg , Desmond C. Ong , Noah D. Goodman

While sentiment and emotion analysis have been studied extensively, the relationship between sarcasm and emotion has largely remained unexplored. A sarcastic expression may have a variety of underlying emotions. For example, "I love being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Anupama Ray , Shubham Mishra , Apoorva Nunna , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Sentiment analysis that classifies data into positive or negative has been dominantly used to recognize emotional aspects of texts, despite the deficit of thorough examination of emotional meanings. Recently, corpora labeled with more than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Duyoung Jeon , Junho Lee , Cheongtag Kim

This research introduces a bilingual dataset comprising 23,456 entries for Arabic and 10,036 entries for English, annotated for emotions and hope speech, addressing the scarcity of multi-emotion (Emotion and hope) datasets. The dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Wajdi Zaghouani , Md. Rafiul Biswas

Image emotion classification (IEC) is a longstanding research field that has received increasing attention with the rapid progress of deep learning. Although recent advances have leveraged the knowledge encoded in pre-trained visual models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zibo Zhou , Zhengjun Zhai , Huimin Chen , Wei Dai , Hansen Yang

Feeling emotion is a critical characteristic to distinguish people from machines. Among all the multi-modal resources for emotion detection, textual datasets are those containing the least additional information in addition to semantics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Sheng-Yeh Chen , Chao-Chun Hsu , Chuan-Chun Kuo , Ting-Hao , Huang , Lun-Wei Ku

Human communication includes information, opinions, and reactions. Reactions are often captured by the affective-messages in written as well as verbal communications. While there has been work in affect modeling and to some extent affective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Sopan Khosla , Niyati Chhaya , Kushal Chawla