CSIRO-LT at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Adapting LLMs for Emotion Recognition for Multiple Languages

Jiyu Chen, Necva Bölücü, Sarvnaz Karimi, Diego Molla, Cecile Paris


Abstract
Detecting emotions across different languages is challenging due to the varied and culturally nuanced ways of emotional expressions. The Semeval 2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based emotion shared task was organised to investigate emotion recognition across different languages. The goal of the task is to implement an emotion recogniser that can identify the basic emotional states that general third-party observers would attribute to an author based on their written text snippet, along with the intensity of those emotions. We report our investigation of various task-adaptation strategies for LLMs in emotion recognition. We show that the most effective method for this task is to fine-tune a pre-trained multilingual LLM for each language.
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2025.semeval-1.48
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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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336–342
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Jiyu Chen, Necva Bölücü, Sarvnaz Karimi, Diego Molla, and Cecile Paris. 2025. CSIRO-LT at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Adapting LLMs for Emotion Recognition for Multiple Languages. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 336–342, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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