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cs.CL2025

SEER: The Span-based Emotion Evidence Retrieval Benchmark

Aneesha Sampath, Oya Aran, Emily Mower Provost

We introduce the SEER (Span-based Emotion Evidence Retrieval) Benchmark to test Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to identify the specific spans of text that express emotion. U…

cs.SD2025

More Similar than Dissimilar: Modeling Annotators for Cross-Corpus Speech Emotion Recognition

James Tavernor, Emily Mower Provost

Speech emotion recognition systems often predict a consensus value generated from the ratings of multiple annotators. However, these models have limited ability to predict the anno…

eess.AS2025

The Whole Is Bigger Than the Sum of Its Parts: Modeling Individual Annotators to Capture Emotional Variability

James Tavernor, Yara El-Tawil, Emily Mower Provost

Emotion expression and perception are nuanced, complex, and highly subjective processes. When multiple annotators label emotional data, the resulting labels contain high variabilit…

cs.CL2025

Contrastive Distillation of Emotion Knowledge from LLMs for Zero-Shot Emotion Recognition

Minxue Niu, Emily Mower Provost

The ability to handle various emotion labels without dedicated training is crucial for building adaptable Emotion Recognition (ER) systems. Conventional ER models rely on training…

cs.SD2025

Efficient Finetuning for Dimensional Speech Emotion Recognition in the Age of Transformers

Aneesha Sampath, James Tavernor, Emily Mower Provost

Accurate speech emotion recognition is essential for developing human-facing systems. Recent advancements have included finetuning large, pretrained transformer models like Wav2Vec…