7 papers
Annotating Dimensions of Social Perception in Text: A Sentence-Level Dataset of Warmth and Competence
Mutaz Ayesh, Saif M. Mohammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum
Warmth (W) (often further broken down intoTrust (T) and Sociability (S)) and Competence (C) are central dimensions along which people evaluate individuals and social groups (Fiske,…
SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA)
Liang-Chih Yu, Jonas Becker, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad +14
We present the SemEval-2026 shared task on Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA), which improves traditional ABSA by modeling sentiment along valence-arousal (VA) d…
Affect, Body, Cognition, Demographics, and Emotion: The ABCDE of Text Features for Computational Affective Science
Jan Philip Wahle, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Bela Gipp +1
Work in Computational Affective Science and Computational Social Science explores a wide variety of research questions about people, emotions, behavior, and health. Such work often…
The Language of Interoception: Examining Embodiment and Emotion Through a Corpus of Body Part Mentions
Sophie Wu, Jan Philip Wahle, Saif M. Mohammad
This paper is the first investigation of the connection between emotion, embodiment, and everyday language in a large sample of natural language data. We created corpora of body pa…
Building Better: Avoiding Pitfalls in Developing Language Resources when Data is Scarce
Nedjma Ousidhoum, Meriem Beloucif, Saif M. Mohammad
Language is a form of symbolic capital that affects people's lives in many ways (Bourdieu1977,1991). As a powerful means of communication, it reflects identities, cultures, traditi…
BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin +45
People worldwide use language in subtle and complex ways to express emotions. Although emotion recognition--an umbrella term for several NLP tasks--impacts various applications wit…