LATE-GIL-NLP at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Multi-Language Emotion Detection and Intensity Classification Using Transformer Models with Optimized Loss Functions for Imbalanced Data

Jesús V á z q u e z - O s o r i o, Helena Gómez - Adorno, Gerardo Sierra, Vladimir Sierra - Casiano, Diana Canchola - Hernández, José Tovar - Cortés, Roberto Solís - Vilchis, Gabriel Salazar


Abstract
This paper addresses our approach to Task 11 (Track A and B) at the SemEval-2025, which focuses on the challenge of multilingual emotion detection in text, specifically identifying perceived emotions. The task is divided into tracks, we participated in two tracks: Track A, involving multilabel emotion detection, and Track B, which extends this to predicting emotion intensity on an ordinal scale. Addressing the challenges of imbalanced data and linguistic diversity, we propose a robust approach using pre-trained language models, fine-tuned with techniques such as extensive and deep hyperparameter optimization, along with loss function combinations to improve performance on imbalanced datasets and underrepresented languages. Our results demonstrate strong performance on Track A, particularly in low-resource languages such as Tigrinya (ranked 2nd), Igbo (ranked 3rd), and Oromo (ranked 4th). This work offers a scalable framework for emotion detection with applications in cross-cultural communication and human-computer interaction.
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2025.semeval-1.93
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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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Jesús V á z q u e z - O s o r i o, Helena Gómez - Adorno, Gerardo Sierra, Vladimir Sierra - Casiano, Diana Canchola - Hernández, José Tovar - Cortés, Roberto Solís - Vilchis, and Gabriel Salazar. 2025. LATE-GIL-NLP at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Multi-Language Emotion Detection and Intensity Classification Using Transformer Models with Optimized Loss Functions for Imbalanced Data. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 666–674, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LATE-GIL-NLP at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Multi-Language Emotion Detection and Intensity Classification Using Transformer Models with Optimized Loss Functions for Imbalanced Data (V á z q u e z - O s o r i o et al., SemEval 2025)
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