SubmissionNumber#=%=#100 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#MIPS at SemEval-2024 Task 3: Multimodal Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations with Multimodal Language Models ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#8 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Zebang Cheng JobTitle#==# Organization#==#Shenzhen Technology University Abstract#==#This paper presents our winning submission to Subtask 2 of SemEval 2024 Task 3 on multimodal emotion cause analysis in conversations. We propose a novel Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Multimodal Emotion Cause Extraction (MER-MCE) framework that integrates text, audio, and visual modalities using specialized emotion encoders. Our approach sets itself apart from top-performing teams by leveraging modality-specific features for enhanced emotion understanding and causality inference. Experimental evaluation demonstrates the advantages of our multimodal approach, with our submission achieving a competitive weighted F1 score of 0.3435, ranking third with a margin of only 0.0339 behind the 1st team and 0.0025 behind the 2nd team. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Zebang Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Cheng Author{1}{Username}#=%=#zebangcheng Author{1}{Email}#=%=#zebang.cheng@gmail.com Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#Shenzhen University Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Fuqiang Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Niu Author{2}{Username}#=%=#nfq Author{2}{Email}#=%=#nfq729@gmail.com Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#Shenzhen University Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Yuxiang Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Lin Author{3}{Username}#=%=#linyuxiang Author{3}{Email}#=%=#lin.yuxiang.contact@gmail.com Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#Shenzhen Technology University Author{4}{Firstname}#=%=#Zhi-Qi Author{4}{Lastname}#=%=#Cheng Author{4}{Username}#=%=#zhiqicheng Author{4}{Email}#=%=#zhiqic@andrew.cmu.edu Author{4}{Affiliation}#=%=#Carnegie Mellon University Author{5}{Firstname}#=%=#Xiaojiang Author{5}{Lastname}#=%=#Peng Author{5}{Email}#=%=#pengxiaojiang@sztu.edu.cn Author{5}{Affiliation}#=%=#Shenzhen Technology University Author{6}{Firstname}#=%=#Bowen Author{6}{Lastname}#=%=#Zhang Author{6}{Username}#=%=#bowenzhang Author{6}{Email}#=%=#zhang_bo_wen@foxmail.com Author{6}{Affiliation}#=%=#Shenzhen Technology University ========== èéáğö