Chiaroscuro for Emotions: A Contrastive Emotion Benchmark Grounded in Appraisal Theory

arXiv:2609.03394 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-03

Code: https://github.com/cincynlp/Chiaro

Terminology

• Benchmark — 30× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Annotator Agreement — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Causal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Regret — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence
• Crowdsourcing a Word-Emotion Association Lexicon
• Recognizing Emotion Cause in Conversations
• Smarter, Better, Faster, Longer: A Modern Bidirectional Encoder for Fast, Memory Efficient, and Long Context Finetuning and Inference
• SocialNLP EmotionX 2019 Challenge Overview: Predicting Emotions in Spoken Dialogues and Chats

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