Maham Khan
2025
NUST Titans at SemEval-2025 Task 11: AfroEmo: Multilingual Emotion Detection with Adaptive Afro-XLM-R
Maham Khan
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Mehwish Fatima
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Hajra Naeem
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Laiba Rana
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Faiza Khan
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Seemab Latif
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Khurram Shahzad
Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
This paper presents AfroEmo, a multilingual, multi label emotion classification system designed for SemEval 2025 Task 11, leveraging the Afro XLMR model. Our approach integrates adaptive pretraining on domain specific corpora followed by fine tuning on low resource languages. Through comprehensive exploratory data analysis, we assess label distribution and model performance across diverse linguistic settings. By incorporating perceived emotions, how emotions are interpreted rather than explicitly stated, we enhance emotion recognition capabilities in underrepresented languages. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves competitive performance particularly in Amharic, while addressing key challenges in low resource emotion detection.
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