Muhammad Areeb Kazmi
2025
Habib University at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection
Owais Waheed
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Hammad Sajid
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Kushal Chandani
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Muhammad Areeb Kazmi
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Sandesh Kumar
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Abdul Samad
Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
Emotion detection in text has emerged as a pivotal challenge in Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly in multilingual and cross-lingual contexts. This paper presents our participation in SemEval 2025 Task 11, focusing on three subtasks: Multi-label Emotion Detection, Emotion Intensity Prediction, and Cross-lingual Emotion Detection. Leveraging state-of-the-art transformer models such as BERT and XLM-RoBERTa, we implemented baseline models and ensemble techniques to enhance predictive accuracy. Additionally, innovative approaches like data augmentation and translation-based cross-lingual emotion detection were used to address linguistic and class imbalances. Our results demonstrated significant improvements in F1 scores and Pearson correlations, showcasing the effectiveness of ensemble learning and transformer-based architectures in emotion recognition. This work advances the field by providing robust methods for emotion detection, particularly in low-resource and multilingual settings.