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Emotions play a critical role in our everyday lives by altering how we perceive, process and respond to our environment. Affective computing aims to instill in computers the ability to detect and act on the emotions of human actors. A core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Connor T. Heaton , David M. Schwartz

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

Word embeddings are one of the most useful tools in any modern natural language processing expert's toolkit. They contain various types of information about each word which makes them the best way to represent the terms in any NLP task. But…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Armin Seyeditabari , Narges Tabari , Shafie Gholizade , Wlodek Zadrozny

This study investigates emotion drift: the change in emotional state across a single text, within mental health-related messages. While sentiment analysis typically classifies an entire message as positive, negative, or neutral, the nuanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shibani Sankpal

Transformer models have significantly advanced the field of emotion recognition. However, there are still open challenges when exploring open-ended queries for Large Language Models (LLMs). Although current models offer good results,…

In this paper, we address the problem of multimodal emotion recognition from multiple physiological signals. We demonstrate that a Transformer-based approach is suitable for this task. In addition, we present how such models may be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Juan Vazquez-Rodriguez , Grégoire Lefebvre , Julien Cumin , James L Crowley

This paper describes the approach to the Emotion Classification shared task held at WASSA 2022 by team PVGs AI Club. This Track 2 sub-task focuses on building models which can predict a multi-class emotion label based on essays from news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Shaily Desai , Atharva Kshirsagar , Aditi Sidnerlikar , Nikhil Khodake , Manisha Marathe

In recent years, emotion detection in text has become more popular due to its vast potential applications in marketing, political science, psychology, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, etc. In this work, we argue that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Armin Seyeditabari , Narges Tabari , Shafie Gholizadeh , Wlodek Zadrozny

While there have been significant advances in de-tecting emotions in text, in the field of utter-ance-level emotion recognition (ULER), there are still many problems to be solved. In this paper, we address some challenges in ULER in dialog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 QingBiao Li , ChunHua Wu , KangFeng Zheng , Zhe Wang

Emotion recognition and classification is a very active area of research. In this paper, we present a first approach to emotion classification using persistent entropy and support vector machines. A topology-based model is applied to obtain…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-22 R. Gonzalez-Diaz , E. Paluzo-Hidalgo , J. F. Quesada

Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

Emotion recognition has become a popular topic of interest, especially in the field of human computer interaction. Previous works involve unimodal analysis of emotion, while recent efforts focus on multi-modal emotion recognition from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Chan Woo Lee , Kyu Ye Song , Jihoon Jeong , Woo Yong Choi

Depression is a growing issue in society's mental health that affects all areas of life and can even lead to suicide. Fortunately, prevention programs can be effective in its treatment. In this context, this work proposes an automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Andrea Laguna , Oscar Araque

The analysis of emotions expressed in text has numerous applications. In contrast to categorical analysis, focused on classifying emotions according to a pre-defined set of common classes, dimensional approaches can offer a more nuanced way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Gonçalo Azevedo Mendes , Bruno Martins

While pre-trained language models excel at semantic understanding, they often struggle to capture nuanced affective information critical for affective recognition tasks. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Seungah Son , Andrez Saurez , Dongsoo Har

Emotion is a crucial phenomenon in the functioning of human beings in society. However, it remains a widely open subject, particularly in its textual manifestations. This paper examines an industrial corpus manually annotated following an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jonas Noblet

This paper investigates how Natural Language Understanding (NLU) could be applied in Emotion Recognition, a specific task in affective computing. We finetuned different transformers language models (BERT, DistilBERT, RoBERTa, XLNet, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Diogo Cortiz

Modern day conversational agents are trained to emulate the manner in which humans communicate. To emotionally bond with the user, these virtual agents need to be aware of the affective state of the user. Transformers are the recent state…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Raman Goel , Seba Susan , Sachin Vashisht , Armaan Dhanda

Opinion mining, also known as sentiment analysis, is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that focuses on identifying and extracting subjective information in textual material. This can include determining the overall sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Nour Eddine Zekaoui , Siham Yousfi , Maryem Rhanoui , Mounia Mikram

Emotion recognition from speech plays a vital role in the development of empathetic human-computer interaction systems. This paper presents a comparative analysis of lightweight transformer-based models, DistilHuBERT and PaSST, by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Lucky Onyekwelu-Udoka , Md Shafiqul Islam , Md Shahedul Hasan