Pixel Phantoms at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Enhancing Multilingual Emotion Detection with a T5 and mT5-Based Approach

Jithu Morrison S, Janani Hariharakrishnan, Harsh Pratap Singh


Abstract
Emotion recognition in textual data is a crucial NLP task with applications in sentiment analysis and mental health monitoring. SemEval 2025 Task 11 introduces a multilingual dataset spanning 28 languages, including low-resource ones, to improve cross-lingual emotion detection. Our approach utilizes T5 for English and mT5 for other languages, fine-tuning them for multi-label classification and emotion intensity estimation. Our findings demonstrate the effectiveness of transformer-based models in capturing nuanced emotional expressions across diverse languages.
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2025.semeval-1.86
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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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617–622
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Jithu Morrison S, Janani Hariharakrishnan, and Harsh Pratap Singh. 2025. Pixel Phantoms at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Enhancing Multilingual Emotion Detection with a T5 and mT5-Based Approach. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 617–622, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Pixel Phantoms at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Enhancing Multilingual Emotion Detection with a T5 and mT5-Based Approach (S et al., SemEval 2025)
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