SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Lima Ruas, Meriem Beloucif, Christine De Kock, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Nirmal Surange, Daniela Teodorescu, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Alham Fikri Aji, Felermino Dario Mario Ali, Vladimir Araujo, Abinew Ali Ayele, Oana Ignat, Alexander Panchenko, Yi Zhou, Saif Mohammad
Abstract
We present our shared task on text-based emotion detection, covering more than 30 languages from seven distinct language families. These languages are predominantly low-resource and spoken across various continents. The data instances are multi-labeled into six emotional classes, with additional datasets in 11 languages annotated for emotion intensity. Participants were asked to predict labels in three tracks: (a) emotion labels in monolingual settings, (b) emotion intensity scores, and (c) emotion labels in cross-lingual settings.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.semeval-1.327
- 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:
- 2558–2569
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2025-08/2025.semeval-1.327/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Lima Ruas, Meriem Beloucif, Christine De Kock, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Nirmal Surange, Daniela Teodorescu, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Alham Fikri Aji, Felermino Dario Mario Ali, Vladimir Araujo, Abinew Ali Ayele, Oana Ignat, Alexander Panchenko, Yi Zhou, and Saif Mohammad. 2025. 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 2558–2569, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection (Muhammad et al., SemEval 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2025-08/2025.semeval-1.327.pdf