SubmissionNumber#=%=#259 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#AIMA at SemEval-2024 Task 3: Simple Yet Powerful Emotion Cause Pair Analysis ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#6 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi JobTitle#==# Organization#==# Abstract#==#The SemEval-2024 Task 3 presents two subtasks focusing on emotion-cause pair extraction within conversational contexts. Subtask 1 revolves around the extraction of textual emotion-cause pairs, where causes are defined and annotated as textual spans within the conversation. Conversely, Subtask 2 extends the analysis to encompass multimodal cues, including language, audio, and vision, acknowledging instances where causes may not be exclusively represented in the textual data. Our proposed model for emotion-cause analysis is meticulously structured into three core segments: (i) embedding extraction, (ii) cause-pair extraction & emotion classification, and (iii) cause extraction using QA after finding pairs. Leveraging state-of-the-art techniques and fine-tuning on task-specific datasets, our model effectively unravels the intricate web of conversational dynamics and extracts subtle cues signifying causality in emotional expressions. Our team, AIMA, demonstrated strong performance in the SemEval-2024 Task 3 competition. We ranked as the 10th in subtask 1 and the 6th in subtask 2 out of 23 teams. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Alireza Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Ghahramani Kure Author{1}{Username}#=%=#qre Author{1}{Email}#=%=#a.ghahramani@sharif.edu Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#sharif university of technology Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Mahshid Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Dehghani Author{2}{Username}#=%=#mahshiddehghani Author{2}{Email}#=%=#mahshid.dehghani@sharif.edu Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#DH-NLP Lab, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Mohammad Mahdi Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Abootorabi Author{3}{Username}#=%=#aboots Author{3}{Email}#=%=#mahdi.abootorabi@sharif.edu Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#Sharif University of Technology Author{4}{Firstname}#=%=#Nona Author{4}{Lastname}#=%=#Ghazizadeh Author{4}{Username}#=%=#nonaghazizadeh Author{4}{Email}#=%=#nona.ghazizadeh@sharif.edu Author{4}{Affiliation}#=%=#Sharif University of Technology Author{5}{Firstname}#=%=#Seyed Arshan Author{5}{Lastname}#=%=#Dalili Author{5}{Username}#=%=#arshandalili Author{5}{Email}#=%=#arshandalili@gmail.com Author{5}{Affiliation}#=%=#Sharif University of Technology / Language Processing and Digital Humanities Laboratory Author{6}{Firstname}#=%=#Ehsaneddin Author{6}{Lastname}#=%=#Asgari Author{6}{Username}#=%=#asgari Author{6}{Email}#=%=#asgari@berkeley.edu Author{6}{Affiliation}#=%=#University of California, Berkeley ========== èéáğö