McGill-NLP at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection

AbstractIn this paper, we present the results of our SemEval-2025 Emotion Detection Shared Task Track A which focuses on multi-label emotion detection. Our team’s approach leverages prompting GPT-4o, fine-tuning NLLB- LLM2Vec encoder, and an ensemble of these two approaches to solve Track A. Our ensemble method beats the baseline method that fine-tuned RemBERT encoder in 24 of the 28 languages. Furthermore, our results shows that the average performance is much worse for under-resourced languages in the Afro- Asiatic, Niger-Congo and Austronesia with per- formance scores at 50 F1 points and below.