MRS at SemEval-2025 Task 11: A Hybrid Approach for Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection
Milad Afshari, Richard Frost, Samantha Kissel, Kristen Johnson
Abstract
We tackle the challenge of multi-label emotion detection in short texts, focusing on SemEval-2025 Task 11 Track A. Our approach, RoEmo, combines generative and discriminative models in an ensemble strategy to classify texts into five emotions: anger, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise.The generative model, instruction-finetuned on emotion detection datasets, undergoes additional fine-tuning on the SemEval-2025 Task 11 Track A dataset to enhance its performance for this specific task. Meanwhile, the discriminative model, based on binary classification, offers a straightforward yet effective approach to classification.We review recent advancements in multi-label emotion detection and analyze the task dataset. Our results show that RoEmo ranks among the top-performing systems, demonstrating high accuracy and reliability.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.semeval-1.81
- 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:
- 584–589
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2025-08/2025.semeval-1.81/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Milad Afshari, Richard Frost, Samantha Kissel, and Kristen Johnson. 2025. MRS at SemEval-2025 Task 11: A Hybrid Approach for Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 584–589, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- MRS at SemEval-2025 Task 11: A Hybrid Approach for Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection (Afshari et al., SemEval 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2025-08/2025.semeval-1.81.pdf