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Although the terms mood and emotion are closely related and often used interchangeably, they are distinguished based on their duration, intensity and attribution. To date, hardly any computational models have (a) examined mood recognition,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Soujanya Narayana , Ramanathan Subramanian , Ibrahim Radwan , Roland Goecke

We propose a novel transfer learning method for speech emotion recognition allowing us to obtain promising results when only few training data is available. With as low as 125 examples per emotion class, we were able to reach a higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Jonathan Boigne , Biman Liyanage , Ted Östrem

Emotion detection in textual data has received growing interest in recent years, as it is pivotal for developing empathetic human-computer interaction systems. This paper introduces a method for categorizing emotions from text, which…

Emotion detection in text is an important task in NLP and is essential in many applications. Most of the existing methods treat this task as a problem of single-label multi-class text classification. To predict multiple emotions for one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Chenyang Huang , Amine Trabelsi , Xuebin Qin , Nawshad Farruque , Osmar R. Zaïane

We present a lightweight multimodal baseline for emotion recognition in conversations using the SemEval-2024 Task 3 dataset built from the sitcom Friends. The goal of this report is not to propose a novel state-of-the-art method, but to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Víctor Yeste , Rodrigo Rivas-Arévalo

The paper describes experiments on estimating emotion intensity in tweets using a generalized regressor system. The system combines lexical, syntactic and pre-trained word embedding features, trains them on general regressors and finally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Venkatesh Duppada , Sushant Hiray

Multi-label sentiment classification plays a vital role in natural language processing by detecting multiple emotions within a single text. However, existing datasets like GoEmotions often suffer from severe class imbalance, which hampers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zijin Su , Huanzhu Lyu , Yuren Niu , Yiming Liu

Deep learning has been widely adopted in automatic emotion recognition and has lead to significant progress in the field. However, due to insufficient annotated emotion datasets, pre-trained models are limited in their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Dung Nguyen , Sridha Sridharan , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Simon Denman , David Dean , Clinton Fookes

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging classification task with natural emotional speech, especially when the distribution of emotion types is imbalanced in the training and test data. In this case, it is more difficult for a model to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Mingjie Chen , Hezhao Zhang , Yuanchao Li , Jiachen Luo , Wen Wu , Ziyang Ma , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai , Joshua Reiss , Lin Wang , Philip C. Woodland , Xie Chen , Huy Phan , Thomas Hain

The majority of existing speech emotion recognition research focuses on automatic emotion detection using training and testing data from same corpus collected under the same conditions. The performance of such systems has been shown to drop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Siddique Latif , Rajib Rana , Shahzad Younis , Junaid Qadir , Julien Epps

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

Classifying group-level emotions is a challenging task due to complexity of video, in which not only visual, but also audio information should be taken into consideration. Existing works on multimodal emotion recognition are using bulky…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Lev Evtodienko

Automated emotion recognition has applications in various fields, such as human-machine interaction, healthcare, security, education, and emotion-aware recommendation/feedback systems. Developing methods to analyze human emotions accurately…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Ruijie Fang , Ruoyu Zhang , Elahe Hosseini , Chongzhou Fang , Mahdi Eslaminehr , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun

Emotion prediction is the field of study to understand human emotions. Existing methods focus on modalities like text, audio, facial expressions, etc., which could be private to the user. Emotion can be derived from the subject's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Dhruv Limbani , Daketi Yatin , Nitish Chaturvedi , Vaishnavi Moorthy , Pushpalatha M , Harichandana BSS , Sumit Kumar

Identifying and understanding underlying sentiment or emotions in text is a key component of multiple natural language processing applications. While simple polarity sentiment analysis is a well-studied subject, fewer advances have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Maude Nguyen-The , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Jan Rockemann

Traditional approaches to automatic emotion recognition are relying on the application of handcrafted features. More recently however the advent of deep learning enabled algorithms to learn meaningful representations of input data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Dominik Schiller , Silvan Mertes , Elisabeth André

Sentiment classification involves quantifying the affective reaction of a human to a document, media item or an event. Although researchers have investigated several methods to reliably infer sentiment from lexical, speech and body language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Rahul Gupta , Saurabh Sahu , Carol Espy-Wilson , Shrikanth Narayanan

Emotions manifest through physical experiences and bodily reactions, yet identifying such embodied emotions in text remains understudied. We present an embodied emotion classification dataset, CHEER-Ekman, extending the existing binary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Phan Anh Duong , Cat Luong , Divyesh Bommana , Tianyu Jiang

Multi-emotion sentiment classification is a natural language processing (NLP) problem with valuable use cases on real-world data. We demonstrate that large-scale unsupervised language modeling combined with finetuning offers a practical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Neel Kant , Raul Puri , Nikolai Yakovenko , Bryan Catanzaro

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging task and an important step towards more natural human-machine interaction. We show that pre-trained language models can be fine-tuned for text emotion recognition, achieving an accuracy of 69.5%…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Verena Heusser , Niklas Freymuth , Stefan Constantin , Alex Waibel