Pixel Phantoms at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Enhancing Multilingual Emotion Detection with a T5 and mT5-Based Approach

AbstractEmotion recognition in textual data is a crucial NLP task with applications in sentiment analysis and mental health monitoring. SemEval 2025 Task 11 introduces a multilingual dataset spanning 28 languages, including low-resource ones, to improve cross-lingual emotion detection. Our approach utilizes T5 for English and mT5 for other languages, fine-tuning them for multi-label classification and emotion intensity estimation. Our findings demonstrate the effectiveness of transformer-based models in capturing nuanced emotional expressions across diverse languages.