Team A at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Breaking Language Barriers in Emotion Detection with Multilingual Models

P Sam Sahil, Anupam Jamatia


Abstract
This paper describes the system submitted by Team A to SemEval 2025 Task 11, “Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection.” The task involved identifying the perceived emotion of a speaker from text snippets, with each instance annotated with one of six emotions: joy, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, or disgust. A dataset provided by the task organizers served as the foundation for training and evaluating our models. Among the various approaches explored, the best performance was achieved using multilingual embeddings combined with a fully connected layer. This paper details the system architecture, discusses experimental results, and highlights the advantages of leveraging multilingual representations for robust emotion detection in text.
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2025.semeval-1.12
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Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá, Debanjan Ghosh, Marcos Zampieri
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SemEval | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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73–82
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P Sam Sahil and Anupam Jamatia. 2025. Team A at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Breaking Language Barriers in Emotion Detection with Multilingual Models. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 73–82, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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