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Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA) extends traditional ABSA from categorical polarity labels to continuous valence-arousal (VA) regression. This paper describes a system developed for Track A, Subtask 1 (Dimensional…

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Telling stories is an integral part of human communication which can evoke emotions and influence the affective states of the audience. Automatically modelling emotional trajectories in stories has thus attracted considerable scholarly…

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Effective and safe human-machine collaboration requires the regulated and meaningful exchange of emotions between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). Current AI systems based on large language models (LLMs) can provide feedback that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiuwen Wu , Hao Wang , Zhiang Yan , Xiaohan Tang , Pengfei Xu , Wai-Ting Siok , Ping Li , Jia-Hong Gao , Bingjiang Lyu , Lang Qin

Mapping discrete and dimensional models of emotion remains a persistent challenge in affective science and computing. This incompatibility hinders the combination of valuable data sets, creating a significant bottleneck for training robust…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Michal R. Wrobel

Video-based Affective Computing (VAC), vital for emotion analysis and human-computer interaction, suffers from model instability and representational degradation due to complex emotional dynamics. Since the meaning of different emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Feng-Qi Cui , Jinyang Huang , Sirui Zhao , Xinyu Li , Xin Yan , Ziyu Jia , Xiaokang Zhou

Visual Emotion Analysis (VEA) aims to bridge the affective gap between visual content and human emotional responses. Despite its promise, progress in this field remains limited by the lack of open-source and interpretable datasets. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yijie Guo , Dexiang Hong , Weidong Chen , Zihan She , Cheng Ye , Xiaojun Chang , Zhendong Mao

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…

A central architectural question for both biological and artificial intelligence is whether judgment relies on specialized modules or a unified, domain-general resource. While the discovery of decodable neural representations for distinct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yi-Long Lu , Jiajun Song , Wei Wang

Safety-aligned LLMs suffer from two failure modes: jailbreak (answering harmful inputs) and over-refusal (declining benign queries). Existing vector steering methods adjust the magnitude of answer vectors, but this creates a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Haonan Zhang , Dongxia Wang , Yi Liu , Kexin Chen , Wenhai Wang

This paper presents Emosaic, a tool for visualizing the emotional tone of text documents, considering multiple dimensions of emotion and varying levels of semantic granularity. Emosaic is grounded in psychological research on the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Philipp Geuder , Marie Claire Leidinger , Martin von Lupin , Marian Dörk , Tobias Schröder

Understanding emotions and expressions is a task of interest across multiple disciplines, especially for improving user experiences. Contrary to the common perception, it has been shown that emotions are not discrete entities but instead…

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This article provides a comprehensive investigation on the relations between virality of news articles and the emotions they are found to evoke. Virality, in our view, is a phenomenon with many facets, i.e. under this generic term several…

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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

As large language models (LLMs) increasingly power conversational agents, understanding how they model users' emotional states is critical for ethical deployment. Inspired by emotion wheels -- a psychological framework that argues emotions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Bo Zhao , Maya Okawa , Eric J. Bigelow , Rose Yu , Tomer Ullman , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Hidenori Tanaka

Students' academic emotions significantly influence their social behavior and learning performance. Traditional approaches to automatically and accurately analyze these emotions have predominantly relied on supervised machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Deliang Wang , Chao Yang , Gaowei Chen

In an era of emotionally saturated digital media and information overload, effective communication demands more than clarity and accuracy-it requires emotional awareness. This review introduces the paradigm of emotion-aware design, a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Shixiong Cao , Nan Cao

Psychological research has long utilized circumplex models to structure emotions, placing similar emotions adjacently and opposing ones diagonally. Although frequently used to interpret deep learning representations, these models are rarely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Yusuke Yamauchi , Akiko Aizawa

Previous studies on visual customization primarily rely on the objective alignment between various control signals (e.g., language, layout and canny) and the edited images, which largely ignore the subjective emotional contents, and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jiamin Luo , Xuqian Gu , Jingjing Wang , Jiahong Lu

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

Deep latent variable models (LVM) such as variational auto-encoder (VAE) have recently played an important role in text generation. One key factor is the exploitation of smooth latent structures to guide the generation. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Le Fang , Chunyuan Li , Jianfeng Gao , Wen Dong , Changyou Chen