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There is growing evidence that the prevalence of disagreement in the raw annotations used to construct natural language inference datasets makes the common practice of aggregating those annotations to a single label problematic. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 William Gantt , Benjamin Kane , Aaron Steven White

In recent years, Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) has made substantial progress. Nevertheless, most existing approaches neglect the semantic inconsistencies that may arise across modalities, such as conflicting emotional cues between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Guowei Zhong , Junjie Li , Huaiyu Zhu , Ruohong Huan , Yun Pan

Learning from multiple annotators aims to induce a high-quality classifier from training instances, where each of them is associated with a set of possibly noisy labels provided by multiple annotators under the influence of their varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Jingzheng Li , Hailong Sun , Jiyi Li , Zhijun Chen , Renshuai Tao , Yufei Ge

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) and emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) are key research topics for computers to understand human behaviors. From a psychological perspective, emotions are the expression of affect or feelings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Guimin Hu , Ting-En Lin , Yi Zhao , Guangming Lu , Yuchuan Wu , Yongbin Li

In this paper we propose a fusion approach to continuous emotion recognition that combines visual and auditory modalities in their representation spaces to predict the arousal and valence levels. The proposed approach employs a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Juan D. S. Ortega , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro L. Koerich

Emotion is an inherently subjective psychophysiological human-state and to produce an agreed-upon representation (gold standard) for continuous emotion requires a time-consuming and costly training procedure of multiple human annotators.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Alice Baird , Lukas Stappen , Lukas Christ , Lea Schumann , Eva-Maria Meßner , Björn W. Schuller

Traditionally, in paralinguistic analysis for emotion detection from speech, emotions have been identified with discrete or dimensional (continuous-valued) labels. Accordingly, models that have been proposed for emotion detection use one or…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Roshan Sharma , Hira Dhamyal , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

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

Music Emotion Recogniser (MER) research faces challenges due to limited high-quality annotated datasets and difficulties in addressing cross-track feature drift. This work presents two primary contributions to address these issues.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Qilin Li , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang

Deep learning-based object detectors have achieved impressive performance in microscopy imaging, yet their confidence estimates often lack calibration, limiting their reliability for biomedical applications. In this work, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Francesco Campi , Lucrezia Tondo , Ekin Karabati , Johannes Betge , Marie Piraud

Annotated data is an essential ingredient in natural language processing for training and evaluating machine learning models. It is therefore very desirable for the annotations to be of high quality. Recent work, however, has shown that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jan-Christoph Klie , Bonnie Webber , Iryna Gurevych

One of the most significant challenges in Music Emotion Recognition (MER) comes from the fact that emotion labels can be heterogeneous across datasets with regard to the emotion representation, including categorical (e.g., happy, sad)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jaeyong Kang , Dorien Herremans

Training with noisy class labels impairs neural networks' generalization performance. In this context, mixup is a popular regularization technique to improve training robustness by making memorizing false class labels more difficult.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Marek Herde , Lukas Lührs , Denis Huseljic , Bernhard Sick

Many machine learning systems today are trained on large amounts of human-annotated data. Data annotation tasks that require a high level of competency make data acquisition expensive, while the resulting labels are often subjective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Emmanouil Antonios Platanios , Maruan Al-Shedivat , Eric Xing , Tom Mitchell

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

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is to recognize human emotions in a natural verbal interaction scenario with machines, which is considered as a challenging problem due to the ambiguous human emotions. Despite the recent progress in SER,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Lei Kang , Lichao Zhang , Dazhi Jiang

Due to the subjective crowdsourcing annotations and the inherent inter-class similarity of facial expressions, the real-world Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets usually exhibit ambiguous annotation. To simplify the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Weijie Wang , Bo Li , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

We propose a novel multi-task pre-training method for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). We pre-train SER model simultaneously on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and sentiment classification tasks to make the acoustic ASR model more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Ayoub Ghriss , Bo Yang , Viktor Rozgic , Elizabeth Shriberg , Chao Wang

Automatic facial expression recognition is an important research area in the emotion recognition and computer vision. Applications can be found in several domains such as medical treatment, driver fatigue surveillance, sociable robotics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Sevegni Odilon Clement Allognon , Alessandro L. Koerich , Alceu de S. Britto

Existing models for named entity recognition (NER) are mainly based on large-scale labeled datasets, which always obtain using crowdsourcing. However, it is hard to obtain a unified and correct label via majority voting from multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Limao Xiong , Jie Zhou , Qunxi Zhu , Xiao Wang , Yuanbin Wu , Qi Zhang , Tao Gui , Xuanjing Huang , Jin Ma , Ying Shan