David Sasu — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Akan Cinematic Emotions (ACE): A Multimodal Multi-party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Movie Dialogues

David Sasu, Zehui Wu, Ziwei Gong, Run Chen, Pengyuan Shi, Lin Ai +2

ACL 2025finding

In this paper, we introduce the Akan Cinematic Emotions (AkaCE) dataset, the first multimodal emotion dialogue dataset for an African language, addressing the significant lack of resources for low-resource languages in emotion recognition research. AkaCE, developed for the Akan language, contains 38…

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2025

Does Context Matter? A Prosodic Comparison of English and Spanish in Monolingual and Multilingual Discourse Settings

Debasmita Bhattacharya, David Sasu, Michela Marchini, Natalie Schluter, Julia Hirschberg

EMNLP 2025

Different languages are known to have typical and distinctive prosodic profiles. However, the majority of work on prosody across languages has been restricted to monolingual discourse contexts. We build on prior studies by asking: how does the nature of the discourse context influence variations in

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