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title = "{YNU}-{HPCC} at {S}em{E}val-2026 Task 2: Contrastive Calibration and Temporal Modeling for Continuous Valence-Arousal Prediction",
author = "Lan, Xin and
Wang, Jin and
Zhang, Xuejie",
editor = "Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Ghosh, Debanjan and
North, Kai and
Komachi, Mamoru",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th {I}nternational {W}orkshop on {S}emantic {E}valuation (2026)",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.43/",
pages = "295--301",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-414-9",
abstract = "This paper addresses continuous affect modeling in SemEval-2026 Task 2 through two task-specific architectures tailored to static state estimation and dynamic change prediction. To mitigate semantic ambiguity and annotation subjectivity in Subtask 1, a hard-prompt-based regression model is developed and enhanced with unsupervised contrastive learning (SimCSE) and supervised contrastive calibration (SCL) grounded in an external affect lexicon. This design improves the structural consistency and scale stability of textual representations in the Valence{--}Arousal (V/A) space. For Subtask 2a, which involves irregular time intervals and historical dependencies, a Time-Aware LSTM architecture is introduced to integrate current affective states with temporally enriched historical trajectories. Experimental results show that the YNU-HPCC system ranks 2nd in both subtasks. In Subtask 1, the Valence and Arousal scores are 0.677 and 0.528, respectively; in Subtask 2a, they are 0.692 and 0.647."
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%T YNU-HPCC at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Contrastive Calibration and Temporal Modeling for Continuous Valence-Arousal Prediction
%A Lan, Xin
%A Wang, Jin
%A Zhang, Xuejie
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Ghosh, Debanjan
%Y North, Kai
%Y Komachi, Mamoru
%S Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, USA
%@ 979-8-89176-414-9
%F lan-etal-2026-ynu
%X This paper addresses continuous affect modeling in SemEval-2026 Task 2 through two task-specific architectures tailored to static state estimation and dynamic change prediction. To mitigate semantic ambiguity and annotation subjectivity in Subtask 1, a hard-prompt-based regression model is developed and enhanced with unsupervised contrastive learning (SimCSE) and supervised contrastive calibration (SCL) grounded in an external affect lexicon. This design improves the structural consistency and scale stability of textual representations in the Valence–Arousal (V/A) space. For Subtask 2a, which involves irregular time intervals and historical dependencies, a Time-Aware LSTM architecture is introduced to integrate current affective states with temporally enriched historical trajectories. Experimental results show that the YNU-HPCC system ranks 2nd in both subtasks. In Subtask 1, the Valence and Arousal scores are 0.677 and 0.528, respectively; in Subtask 2a, they are 0.692 and 0.647.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.43/
%P 295-301
Markdown (Informal)
[YNU-HPCC at SemEval-2026 Task 2: Contrastive Calibration and Temporal Modeling for Continuous Valence-Arousal Prediction](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.43/) (Lan et al., SemEval 2026)
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