DataBees at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Challenges and Limitations in Multi-Label Emotion Detection

Sowmya Anand, Tanisha Sriram, Rajalakshmi Sivanaiah, Angel Deborah S, Mirnalinee Thankanadar


Abstract
Text-based emotion detection is crucial in NLP,with applications in sentiment analysis, socialmedia monitoring, and human-computer interaction. This paper presents our approach tothe Multi-label Emotion Detection challenge,classifying texts into joy, sadness, anger, fear,and surprise. We experimented with traditionalmachine learning and transformer-based models, but results were suboptimal: F1 scores of0.3723 (English), 0.5174 (German), and 0.6957(Spanish). We analyze the impact of preprocessing, model selection, and dataset characteristics, highlighting key challenges in multilabel emotion classification and potential improvements.
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2025.semeval-1.33
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Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá, Debanjan Ghosh, Marcos Zampieri
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SemEval | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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222–227
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Sowmya Anand, Tanisha Sriram, Rajalakshmi Sivanaiah, Angel Deborah S, and Mirnalinee Thankanadar. 2025. DataBees at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Challenges and Limitations in Multi-Label Emotion Detection. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 222–227, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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DataBees at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Challenges and Limitations in Multi-Label Emotion Detection (Anand et al., SemEval 2025)
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