@inproceedings{thota-etal-2026-afourp,
    title = "{AF}our{P} at {S}em{E}val-2026 Task 2: Predicting Variation in Emotional Valence and Arousal over Time from Ecological Essays",
    author = "Thota, Shrika  and
      Swaminatha Rao, Lakshmi Priya  and
      Sk, Shivaanee  and
      Ra, Thirumurugan  and
      Muralidharan, Vishal  and
      Santhakumari Madhavan, Dhannya",
    editor = "Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Ghosh, Debanjan  and
      North, Kai  and
      Komachi, Mamoru",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th {I}nternational {W}orkshop on {S}emantic {E}valuation (2026)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.semeval-1.217/",
    pages = "1695--1700",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-414-9",
    abstract = "We describe our submission to SemEval-2026 Task 2 (Subtask 1), which asks systems to predict continuous Valence and Arousal scores from ecological diary texts. We fine-tune RoBERTa-base with a single linear regression head, treating each essay independently. Our system scores rcomposite of .679 (Valence) and .466 (Arousal) on the official test set, placing 4th on the Subtask 1 leaderboard."
}