Habib University at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection
Owais Waheed, Hammad Sajid, Kushal Chandani, Muhammad Areeb Kazmi, Sandesh Kumar, Abdul Samad
Abstract
Emotion detection in text has emerged as a pivotal challenge in Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly in multilingual and cross-lingual contexts. This paper presents our participation in SemEval 2025 Task 11, focusing on three subtasks: Multi-label Emotion Detection, Emotion Intensity Prediction, and Cross-lingual Emotion Detection. Leveraging state-of-the-art transformer models such as BERT and XLM-RoBERTa, we implemented baseline models and ensemble techniques to enhance predictive accuracy. Additionally, innovative approaches like data augmentation and translation-based cross-lingual emotion detection were used to address linguistic and class imbalances. Our results demonstrated significant improvements in F1 scores and Pearson correlations, showcasing the effectiveness of ensemble learning and transformer-based architectures in emotion recognition. This work advances the field by providing robust methods for emotion detection, particularly in low-resource and multilingual settings.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.semeval-1.217
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Vienna, Austria
- Editors:
- Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá, Debanjan Ghosh, Marcos Zampieri
- Venues:
- SemEval | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1656–1661
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2025-08/2025.semeval-1.217/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Owais Waheed, Hammad Sajid, Kushal Chandani, Muhammad Areeb Kazmi, Sandesh Kumar, and Abdul Samad. 2025. Habib University at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 1656–1661, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Habib University at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection (Waheed et al., SemEval 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2025-08/2025.semeval-1.217.pdf