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author Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan
Ousidhoum, Nedjma
Abdulmumin, Idris
Wahle, Jan Philip
Ruas, Terry
Beloucif, Meriem
de Kock, Christine
Surange, Nirmal
Teodorescu, Daniela
Ahmad, Ibrahim Said
Adelani, David Ifeoluwa
Aji, Alham Fikri
Ali, Felermino D. M. A.
Alimova, Ilseyar
Araujo, Vladimir
Babakov, Nikolay
Baes, Naomi
Bucur, Ana-Maria
Bukula, Andiswa
Cao, Guanqun
Cardenas, Rodrigo Tufino
Chevi, Rendi
Chukwuneke, Chiamaka Ijeoma
Ciobotaru, Alexandra
Dementieva, Daryna
Gadanya, Murja Sani
Geislinger, Robert
Gipp, Bela
Hourrane, Oumaima
Ignat, Oana
Lawan, Falalu Ibrahim
Mabuya, Rooweither
Mahendra, Rahmad
Marivate, Vukosi
Panchenko, Alexander
Piper, Andrew
Ferreira, Charles Henrique Porto
Protasov, Vitaly
Rutunda, Samuel
Shrivastava, Manish
Udrea, Aura Cristina
Wanzare, Lilian Diana Awuor
Wu, Sophie
Wunderlich, Florian Valentin
Zhafran, Hanif Muhammad
Zhang, Tianhui
Zhou, Yi
Mohammad, Saif M.
author_facet Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan
Ousidhoum, Nedjma
Abdulmumin, Idris
Wahle, Jan Philip
Ruas, Terry
Beloucif, Meriem
de Kock, Christine
Surange, Nirmal
Teodorescu, Daniela
Ahmad, Ibrahim Said
Adelani, David Ifeoluwa
Aji, Alham Fikri
Ali, Felermino D. M. A.
Alimova, Ilseyar
Araujo, Vladimir
Babakov, Nikolay
Baes, Naomi
Bucur, Ana-Maria
Bukula, Andiswa
Cao, Guanqun
Cardenas, Rodrigo Tufino
Chevi, Rendi
Chukwuneke, Chiamaka Ijeoma
Ciobotaru, Alexandra
Dementieva, Daryna
Gadanya, Murja Sani
Geislinger, Robert
Gipp, Bela
Hourrane, Oumaima
Ignat, Oana
Lawan, Falalu Ibrahim
Mabuya, Rooweither
Mahendra, Rahmad
Marivate, Vukosi
Panchenko, Alexander
Piper, Andrew
Ferreira, Charles Henrique Porto
Protasov, Vitaly
Rutunda, Samuel
Shrivastava, Manish
Udrea, Aura Cristina
Wanzare, Lilian Diana Awuor
Wu, Sophie
Wunderlich, Florian Valentin
Zhafran, Hanif Muhammad
Zhang, Tianhui
Zhou, Yi
Mohammad, Saif M.
contents 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 within NLP and beyond, most work in this area has focused on high-resource languages. This has led to significant disparities in research efforts and proposed solutions, particularly for under-resourced languages, which often lack high-quality annotated datasets. In this paper, we present BRIGHTER--a collection of multi-labeled, emotion-annotated datasets in 28 different languages and across several domains. BRIGHTER primarily covers low-resource languages from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, with instances labeled by fluent speakers. We highlight the challenges related to the data collection and annotation processes, and then report experimental results for monolingual and crosslingual multi-label emotion identification, as well as emotion intensity recognition. We analyse the variability in performance across languages and text domains, both with and without the use of LLMs, and show that the BRIGHTER datasets represent a meaningful step towards addressing the gap in text-based emotion recognition.
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spellingShingle BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan
Ousidhoum, Nedjma
Abdulmumin, Idris
Wahle, Jan Philip
Ruas, Terry
Beloucif, Meriem
de Kock, Christine
Surange, Nirmal
Teodorescu, Daniela
Ahmad, Ibrahim Said
Adelani, David Ifeoluwa
Aji, Alham Fikri
Ali, Felermino D. M. A.
Alimova, Ilseyar
Araujo, Vladimir
Babakov, Nikolay
Baes, Naomi
Bucur, Ana-Maria
Bukula, Andiswa
Cao, Guanqun
Cardenas, Rodrigo Tufino
Chevi, Rendi
Chukwuneke, Chiamaka Ijeoma
Ciobotaru, Alexandra
Dementieva, Daryna
Gadanya, Murja Sani
Geislinger, Robert
Gipp, Bela
Hourrane, Oumaima
Ignat, Oana
Lawan, Falalu Ibrahim
Mabuya, Rooweither
Mahendra, Rahmad
Marivate, Vukosi
Panchenko, Alexander
Piper, Andrew
Ferreira, Charles Henrique Porto
Protasov, Vitaly
Rutunda, Samuel
Shrivastava, Manish
Udrea, Aura Cristina
Wanzare, Lilian Diana Awuor
Wu, Sophie
Wunderlich, Florian Valentin
Zhafran, Hanif Muhammad
Zhang, Tianhui
Zhou, Yi
Mohammad, Saif M.
Computation and Language
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 within NLP and beyond, most work in this area has focused on high-resource languages. This has led to significant disparities in research efforts and proposed solutions, particularly for under-resourced languages, which often lack high-quality annotated datasets. In this paper, we present BRIGHTER--a collection of multi-labeled, emotion-annotated datasets in 28 different languages and across several domains. BRIGHTER primarily covers low-resource languages from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, with instances labeled by fluent speakers. We highlight the challenges related to the data collection and annotation processes, and then report experimental results for monolingual and crosslingual multi-label emotion identification, as well as emotion intensity recognition. We analyse the variability in performance across languages and text domains, both with and without the use of LLMs, and show that the BRIGHTER datasets represent a meaningful step towards addressing the gap in text-based emotion recognition.
title BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11926