SubmissionNumber#=%=#172 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#PetKaz at SemEval-2024 Task 3: Advancing Emotion Classification with an LLM for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#8 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Kseniia JobTitle#==# Organization#==# Abstract#==#In this paper, we present our submission to the SemEval-2023 Task 3 "The Competition of Multimodal Emotion Cause Analysis in Conversations'', focusing on extracting emotion-cause pairs from dialogs. Specifically, our approach relies on combining fine-tuned GPT-3.5 for emotion classification and using a BiLSTM-based neural network to detect causes. We score 2nd in the ranking for Subtask 1, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach through one of the highest weighted-average proportional F1 scores recorded at 0.264. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Roman Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Kazakov Author{1}{Username}#=%=#sachertort Author{1}{Email}#=%=#romankazakov.krm@gmail.com Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Kseniia Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Petukhova Author{2}{Username}#=%=#kpetyxova Author{2}{Email}#=%=#kapetukhova@gmail.com Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#MBZUAI Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Ekaterina Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Kochmar Author{3}{Username}#=%=#ekochmar Author{3}{Email}#=%=#ekaterina.kochmar@gmail.com Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#MBZUAI ========== èéáğö