Affective Computing

LLM-MC-Affect: LLM-Based Monte Carlo Modeling of Affective Trajectories and Latent Ambiguity for Interpersonal Dynamic Insight ACL 2026 Locate and Explain: Joint Multimodal Emotion Cause Extraction and Summarization in Conversation ACL 2026 Mapping the Circumplex of Affect: Geometric Analysis of Emotion Representations via Hyperspherical Contrastive Learning ACL 2026 McMaster NLP at SemEval-2026 Task 2: A Lightweight Multi-Feature System for Predicting Emotional Valence and Arousal over Time SemEval 2026 MuSACo: Multimodal Subject-Specific Selection and Adaptation for Expression Recognition with Co-Training WACV 2026 Nano-EmoX: Unifying Multimodal Emotional Intelligence from Perception to Empathy CVPR 2026 NLP-FSDM at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Temporal Smoothing and CCC-MAE Optimization for Balanced Longitudinal Affect Assessment SemEval 2026 NLPGroup8 at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Diverse Ensembles and Hierarchical Transformers for Emotional State Prediction SemEval 2026 One and Only at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Evaluating Zero-Shot Autonomous LLM Agents and Heuristic Proxies in Ecological Affect Forecasting SemEval 2026 OSMO: Open-vocabulary Self-eMOtion Tracking CVPR 2026 Persona-E²: A Human-Grounded Dataset for Personality-Shaped Emotional Responses to Textual Events ACL 2026 Perspicere at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Modeling Longitudinal Valence and Arousal via Dense Embeddings and Agentic Reasoning SemEval 2026 Prosody as Supervision: Bridging the Non-Verbal–Verbal for Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition ACL 2026 Region-Aware Instance Consistency Learning for Micro-Expression Recognition CVPR 2026 Robust Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Incomplete Modalities via Query-Based Unimodal and Cross-Modal Learning WACV 2026 RPI Team at SemEval-2026 Task 3: An LLM-Encoder Ensemble for Coarse-to-Fine Valence-Arousal Sentiment Prediction SemEval 2026 SemEval-2026 Task 2: Predicting Variation in Emotional Valence and Arousal over Time from Ecological Essays SemEval 2026 SMILE-Next: Teaching Large Language Models to Detect, Classify, and Reason about Laughter ACL 2026 TEA-Bench: A Systematic Benchmarking of Tool-enhanced Emotional Support Dialogue Agent ACL 2026 Tears or Cheers? Benchmarking LLMs via Culturally Elicited Distinct Affective Responses ACL 2026 UAlberta at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Temporal Fusion Models for Predicting Affect Over Time SemEval 2026 UKPPsycontrol at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Modeling Valence and Arousal Dynamics from Text SemEval 2026 VAP-GameController at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Lexical-based and Emotion-Aware Approaches for Longtitudinal Emotion Prediction SemEval 2026 VerbaNex AI at SemEval-2026 Task 2: DeBERTa for Longitudinal Valence and Arousal Prediction SemEval 2026 Ableism, Ageism, Gender, and Nationality bias in Norwegian and Multilingual Language Models ACL 2025