Empaths at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Retrieval-Augmented Approach to Perceived Emotions Prediction

Lev Morozov, Aleksandr Mogilevskii, Alexander Shirnin


Abstract
The paper introduces EmoRAG, a retrieval-augmented emotion detection system designed for the SemEval-2025 Task 11. It uses an ensemble of models, retrieving similar examples to prompt large language models (LLMs) for emotion predictions. The retriever component fetches the most relevant examples from a database, which are then used as few-shot prompts for the models. EmoRAG achieves strong, scalable performance across languages with no training at all, demonstrating effectiveness in both high and low-resource languages.
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2025.semeval-1.259
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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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2000–2007
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Lev Morozov, Aleksandr Mogilevskii, and Alexander Shirnin. 2025. Empaths at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Retrieval-Augmented Approach to Perceived Emotions Prediction. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 2000–2007, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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