SubmissionNumber#=%=#202 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#VerbaNexAI Lab at SemEval-2024 Task 3: Deciphering emotional causality in conversations using multimodal analysis approach ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#5 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Edwin Puertas JobTitle#==# Organization#==# Abstract#==#This study delineates our participation in the SemEval-2024 Task 3: Multimodal Emotion Cause Analysis in Conversations, focusing on developing and applying an innovative methodology for emotion detection and cause analysis in conversational contexts. Leveraging logistic regression, we analyzed conversational utterances to identify emotions per utterance. Subsequently, we employed a dependency analysis pipeline, utilizing SpaCy to extract significant chunk features, including object, subject, adjectival modifiers, and adverbial clause modifiers. These features were analyzed within a graph-like framework, conceptualizing the dependency relationships as edges connecting emotional causes (tails) to their corresponding emotions (heads). Despite the novelty of our approach, the preliminary results were unexpectedly humbling, with a consistent score of 0.0 across all evaluated metrics. This paper presents our methodology, the challenges encountered, and an analysis of the potential factors contributing to these outcomes, offering insights into the complexities of emotion-cause analysis in multimodal conversational data. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Victor Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Pacheco Author{1}{Email}#=%=#vimapachecoro@ittepic.edu.mx Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#Instituto Tecnológico de Tepic Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Elizabeth Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Martinez Author{2}{Email}#=%=#eayala@utb.edu.co Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Juan Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Cuadrado Author{3}{Email}#=%=#jflechas@utb.edu.co Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar Author{4}{Firstname}#=%=#Juan Carlos Author{4}{Lastname}#=%=#Martinez Santos Author{4}{Username}#=%=#jcmartinezs Author{4}{Email}#=%=#juanc.martinez.santos@gmail.com Author{4}{Affiliation}#=%=#Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar Author{5}{Firstname}#=%=#Edwin Author{5}{Lastname}#=%=#Puertas Author{5}{Username}#=%=#eapuerta Author{5}{Email}#=%=#epuerta@utb.edu.co Author{5}{Affiliation}#=%=#Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar ========== èéáğö