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Large language models are routinely deployed on text that varies widely in emotional tone, yet their reasoning behavior is typically evaluated without accounting for emotion as a source of representational variation. Prior work has largely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Benjamin Reichman , Adar Avsian , Samuel Webster , Larry Heck

Facial emotion recognition has been typically cast as a single-label classification problem of one out of six prototypical emotions. However, that is an oversimplification that is unsuitable for representing the multifaceted spectrum of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Joao Baptista Cardia Neto , Claudio Ferrari , Stefano Berretti

Emotion plays an essential role in human-to-human communication, enabling us to convey feelings such as happiness, frustration, and sincerity. While modern speech technologies rely heavily on speech recognition and natural language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Vasudha Kowtha , Vikramjit Mitra , Chris Bartels , Erik Marchi , Sue Booker , William Caruso , Sachin Kajarekar , Devang Naik

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is critical for enabling natural human-machine interactions. However, existing methods predominantly employ categorical or dimensional emotion annotations, which often fail to adequately represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yoshiki Tanaka , Ryuichi Uehara , Koji Inoue , Michimasa Inaba

Recent research shows that emotions can enhance users' cognition and influence information communication. While research on visual emotion analysis is extensive, limited work has been done on helping users generate emotionally rich image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Shengqi Dang , Yi He , Long Ling , Ziqing Qian , Nanxuan Zhao , Nan Cao

During the last decade, the applications of signal processing have drastically improved with deep learning. However areas of affecting computing such as emotional speech synthesis or emotion recognition from spoken language remains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-04 Noé Tits , Kevin El Haddad , Thierry Dutoit

Autonomous agents that can engage in social interactions witha human is the ultimate goal of a myriad of applications. A keychallenge in the design of these applications is to define the socialbehavior of the agent, which requires extensive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Diogo S. Carvalho , Joana Campos , Manuel Guimarães , Ana Antunes , João Dias , Pedro A. Santos

Emotions play an important role in people's life. Understanding and recognising is not only important for interpersonal communication, but also has promising applications in Human-Computer Interaction, automobile safety and medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Xia Yicheng , Dimitrios Kollias

Predicting affect in unconstrained environments remains a fundamental challenge in human-centered AI. While deep neural embeddings dominate contemporary approaches, they often lack interpretability and limit expert-driven refinement. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Kosmas Pinitas , Ilias Maglogiannis

To understand historical texts, we must be aware that language -- including the emotional connotation attached to words -- changes over time. In this paper, we aim at estimating the emotion which is associated with a given word in former…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Johannes Hellrich , Sven Buechel , Udo Hahn

Emotions are inherently ambiguous and dynamic phenomena, yet existing continuous emotion recognition approaches either ignore their ambiguity or treat ambiguity as an independent and static variable over time. Motivated by this gap in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jingyao Wu , Matthew Barthet , David Melhart , Georgios N. Yannakakis

Emotion Classification based on text is a task with many applications which has received growing interest in recent years. This paper presents a preliminary study with the goal to help researchers and practitioners gain insight into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Anna Koufakou , Jairo Garciga , Adam Paul , Joseph Morelli , Christopher Frank

In recent years, deep learning has achieved innovative advancements in various fields, including the analysis of human emotions and behaviors. Initiatives such as the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Seongjae Min , Junseok Yang , Sangjun Lim , Junyong Lee , Sangwon Lee , Sejoon Lim

Dynamic emotion recognition in the wild remains challenging due to the transient nature of emotional expressions and temporal misalignment of multi-modal cues. Traditional approaches predict valence and arousal and often overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Vrushank Ahire , Kunal Shah , Mudasir Nazir Khan , Nikhil Pakhale , Lownish Rai Sookha , M. A. Ganaie , Abhinav Dhall

As different people perceive others' emotional expressions differently, their annotation in terms of arousal and valence are per se subjective. To address this, these emotion annotations are typically collected by multiple annotators and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Navin Raj Prabhu , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock , Timo Gerkmann

Content creators often use music to enhance their stories, as it can be a powerful tool to convey emotion. In this paper, our goal is to help creators find music to match the emotion of their story. We focus on text-based stories that can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Minz Won , Justin Salamon , Nicholas J. Bryan , Gautham J. Mysore , Xavier Serra

Recognizing emotions in conversations is a challenging task due to the presence of contextual dependencies governed by self- and inter-personal influences. Recent approaches have focused on modeling these dependencies primarily via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea

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

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

Automatic prediction of continuous-level emotional state requires selection of suitable affective features to develop a regression system based on supervised machine learning. This paper investigates the performance of features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Ramesh Basnet , Mohammad Tariqul Islam , Tamanna Howlader , S. M. Mahbubur Rahman , Dimitrios Hatzinakos